Opening credit trends

There is a trend for the order of names that appear at the beginning of films. The majority of all films do follow this trend or around about this order of names. The order is:

·         Studio company

·         Production company

·         Directors name

·         Main actors names

·         The name of the film

·         The supporting cast

·         Roles such as Set designer, Music composer, Editor, etc.

·         Producers

This trend is apparent in most films, however are displayed in various ways, using various techniques as sated previously.

In my film I will use this trend pattern and make sure that I follow this trend as it has proven to be very successful over time. 

Sooting schedule

Date	Time	No.
11th April 2017	5:30am-6:30am	Shoot 1
11th April 2017	1:30pm-3:00pm	Shoot 2
13th April 2017	1:30pm-2:30pm	Possible reshoot.

Storyboard

Script

I will have no dialogue in my opening as I feel it won’t be as effective if I do have dialogue. I am however including music, pleonastic sound and both diagetic and non-diagetic sound, which will be shown on the storyboard. 

Production and Distribution companies

Every film will have a number of production and distribution companies before the film starts, showing the audience who made and owns the rights to film they are about to be showed. I decide that it would be best to use an already established film distribution company in Universal studios, however decided that I will create my own production company. Most people and the audience can name several distribution companies, Warner Bros, Universal 20^th Century Fox etc. However, people don’t particularly know the production companies, for example Lucasfilm. I therefore decided that I will make my own production company, whilst using the Universal studios name as well. I further made up a company called JC films and put this at the beginning of my film. 

Font styles

I was limited when selecting my font style as I wanted to select a font that fitted with the opening, genre and music. Whilst editing on the Mac there were only a small list of fonts that I was able to use in the opening. I wanted to do with a font that looked handwritten as a lot of successful thriller films have this convention as it makes them look creepier than a font that looks typed. I would have liked to use an alternative font style such as Mistrel, Matura or Rage Italic however these fonts weren’t available on the desktop that I was using so therefore had go with a different font called Chalkduster, which look like the font in the image. This font wasn’t ideal and is in some places fairly difficult to read however I didn’t have many other choices apart from having a font that looked typed, therefore I preferred to have a font that was slightly harder to read, but did look a lot better.

Name of the film

At first I struggled with a name for my film, as I decided to create the film first and then come up with a name for it. Based on what happens in my opening and watching my opening a phew times, had a phew ideas on names for the film. This is what I came up with:

 I finaly decided to go with the name Vengeance as it sounded the most menacing out of all of the options that I came up with.