What I will take from my research

Films such as ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ are very creative with their credits in the opening title sequence. This has showed my group and I that we could be more creative with our titles rather than simply superimposing text upon the moving images. 

The opening title sequence of ‘Twilight’ introduces the audience to several genre conventions of horror such as a dark woods and vampires. This will be key in the production of our opening title sequence as we must create a storyline- this means we must establish a genre.

With our production being an independent film we must take note of other independent films who often credit actors later on as they are not likely to capture the audience being less-known. We must credit the ‘biggest names’ first. In this case it’ll be the fictional production company. 

With our opening title sequence having to introduce characters we could follow films such as Twilight who credit the actors whilst showing shots of them on screen. 

The score or ambient sound in our opening title sequence must match the genre/happenings of our film. I learnt this from analysing the opening titles of the 2000 film ‘Billy Elliot’- the lyrics of the score being “I was dancing”. This relates directly to the film being about a young boy who ballet dances.

The opening title sequence of St Trinians showed me how films can not only use the opening titles to credit the members of production but to introduce the genre, setting and start the story.