Title Orders Within Film Openings

Fight Club- Starts with a CG effect of a realistic imagery of inside of the mans nerve system sparking as the titles appear this is slowly zooming out ending with an unsettling view of the sweating obviously disturbed man with the barrel of a gun down his throat. This is the order in which the opening titles appear:This is the order in which the opening titles appear:This is the order in which the opening titles appear:

• Production Company
• Its Associates
• The Producer
• Main Characters (Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter)
• The Film Title
• More Actors
• Casting By
• Costume Designer
• Special Make Up Effects Supervisor
• Sound Designer
• Music By
• Film Editor
• Production Designer
• Director of Photography
• Executive Producer
• Based on the Novel (Chuck Palahntuk)
• Screenplay by
• Producers
• Directors

The Incredibles- This opening scene was a very energetic cartoon display of CGI setting the mood and scene for the audience, whilst introducing the titles very skillfully showing off the use of CGI. This is the order in which the opening titles appear:

• Title
• Written and Directed
• Produced
• Executive Producer
• Associate Producer
• Music by
• Story Supervisor
• Film Editor
• Supervising Technical Director
• Production Designer
• Character Design
• Supervising Animators
• Directors of Photography
• Art Director and Shading Art Director
• Character Supervisor
• Hair & Cloth Simulation Supervisor
• Sequence Supervisor
• Effects Supervisor
• Rendering Supervisor
• Production Manager
• Sound Designer
• Casting by & Casting (In order of appearance)

Smokin' Aces- The opening scene of 'Smokin' Aces' is very unique having a flow of pop art coloured shots of the film including specific characters. This is the order in which the opening titles appear:

• Written and Directed by
• Produced by
• Executive Producers
• Main Characters (starting with most popular)
• Director of Photography
• Production Designer
• Editor
• Costume Designer
• Music by
• Music Supervisor
• Casting by
• Film by
• Title
• In Association with
• Unit Production Manager
• First Assistant Director
• Second Assistant Director

I chose three different genres to look at the opening scenes of to see if there was a difference within the order of which the opening titles appear. They all had very different opening scenes the first two with CGI but with very different aspects. From this research i understand that the most important, therefore titles viewed first are; Who it was produced by and Main characters. Although these were popular with my choice of openings i believe that many openings are very different and are prefer to be mixed up, depending on the audience the film is aimed at this will give the viewers a better, positive understanding of what the film will be like without it even starting.