Conventions of an Opening Sequence

In the opening sequences films present their title, key credit productions and cast members. They use quality visuals and sound to present these. Sometimes they also put key actors or actresses names at the beginning on top of static or motions pictures, with or without sound.

 ^These are some of the main distribution companies you will see at the beginning of the opening sequence. However for our film we won't be using any of these as they are not known for helping first time film makers, we will be using Film 4.

You will also see production companies such as: Kemp Company and Splendid pictures who produced 'Catch Me if you Can^

^Some title sequences may include top billing actor's names such as in James Bond Casino Royale, Daniel Craig's name appears and so does Judy Dench's. They also include the director's name which features right at the end: Martin Campbell. This opening title sequence shows a lot of names which all helped make this film a big success for example the music producer, executive producer, make-up artist, casting director etc. This all makes this sequence very long .

In our opening sequence we chose not to use actor's names as we are  not very well known so it would not help with making more people watch it. However we did include the distribution company we would hope to use. This research helped me find out what is the main conventions of the opening sequence and made it more clearer what the big film makers include