Opening Credits

The purpose of a film credit is to let the audience know who have taken part in creating the movie clip that the audience are watching. For example, in our movie clip, we would have the following:

• Camera Operator: Nadia Shah
• Actors: Nadia Shah, Jade Almond, Jackie Jarvis, Charlotte Watt, Olympia Konstantino & Natasha Petrou
• Sound Technician: Rhiann Johal & Nadia Shah
• Editors: Rhiann Johal & Nadia Shah
• Film Director: Rhiann Johal
• Location Manager: Nadia Shah
• Storyboard Organiser: Rhiann Johal

Se7en Opening Credits:

Colours:

The main background colour was black with the flashing shots in between normally having a red theme. They have used white for the credit text, which stands out more against the black so it makes the names stand out more. 

 Style and Conventions of credits:

The credits are very flicky and they have used shadows to highlight the credits more. They have also made the text move around and get a glow to make it more highlighted. When it moves, they have also added extra elements to make it look as if it is being showed from a film reel, which connotes that it must be quite old. Also, at 1:04, the credit looks like The font looks handwritten and it looks as if the person writing in book is writing the credits out. 
Another convention of these credits it the effects on the sound. They have used parallel sounds that go with the shots of the antagonist, which helps to emphasis what he is doing. The enigma in this thriller is that we don't know who the person is, but we can only assume they are the killer.

order of appearance:

01: production company

02: production

03: film by

04: actors (title came up after the two main characters)

05: casting

06: music

07: costume design

08: production design

09: camera operator

10: co producers

11: main producers

12: writers

13: directors

14: title

Vertigo Opening Credits:

order of appearance:

01: production company

02: actors

03: director

04: title

05: co-actors

06: screenplay

07: based on novel 

08: photography

09: colour consultant

10: art direction

11:special photographic effect

12: process photography

13: title designed by

14: editors

15: assistant director 

16: make up & hair

17: sound recorded

18: costumes

19: special sequences

20: music

21: conducted by

22: associate producer

23: director

Group Anaylsis:

After looking at the videos by ourselves, Rhiann and I decided to work together to see what we liked the best. However, we both disagreed. I think the Se7en opening credits are better while Rhiann thinks that the Vertigo opening credits are better. We both decided to write down what points we felt were good about the opening credits that we liked so that we could use these points to help us with what we should include in our own thriller film.

Here is what Rhiann thought about the Vertigo opening credits:

'There are many reasons that I believe the opening credits for vertigo are successful in conveying that the film is of the thriller genre, successful in keeping the viewer engaged and making them want to continue watching the film to see the storyline unfold.

The first reason is that the I believe the credits are bold, the use of white font in front of the black and grey backgrounds stand out and are eye-catching as they convey a serious atmosphere to the film.

 

Another reason I believe the opening credits to vertigo are successful is that they keep the theme of the circle running throughout. This shows the hidden meaning to the film as vertigo means a sensation if whirling. The first circle we see is when the camera zooms in on the pupil of the girls eye, this is then followed by purple, blue and pink pyshcadelic spirals unfolding were the main credits naming the production crew appear. This made me think that adding meaning to the credits we use is important as thrillers aim to confuse the audience and convey hidden meanings to the viewer throughout, this helped to come to the idea that we could use the same font for our credits as we used on the game board featured in our thriller opening.'

I believed that the opening credits for Se7en was better than the opening credits for Vertigo. 
My first reason was that it was very obvious from the opening credits that the movie was going to be a thriller. This is because of the conventions that are portrayed in it. For instance, there is a enigma of who the character is who is completing all the tasks and actions that are shown in the clip. Also they suggest that the character is creating a book about someone or recording something which is another enigma in itself.

The sounds that are used, help to keep the audience engaged with the clip. Also the font is a stereotypical thriller font & it fits in with the scene as it looks to be handwritten and with the tasks that the character is completing, it all fits and joins together.

However, when we started to look at fonts for our own credits, we both were looking for the same thing. Here are some examples of fonts that we looked at:

1.2.3.

4.5.6.

1. I felt that whilst no.1 was a conventional thriller film but that because it was a type writer style font, it wouldn't fit with our board game narrative.
2. I picked no.2 as I wanted to see what a handwriting style credit would look like
3,4,5 & 6. As a group, we felt that while all these fonts are what you would expect to see in a thriller genre, we felt that they wouldn't fit with our narrative and film.

Order that our credits will come up in:
01: production company (level46productions)
02: director
03: actors
04: camera operator
05: storyboard organiser
06: location manager
07: editor
08: sound technicians