Titles and credits

The majority of the films I looked at had the titles and credits at the start of the film on separate slides before the film even started. "City of God", for example, has about 45 seconds of credit slides at the beginning. Other films introduced them slowly throughout the sequence over the action. We’ll be adding the titles and credits into the start of the film but gradually so the audience can have a sense of location and actually get into the film as we don't want to use too much of our two minutes on text slides.

The font and colour suggests the genre of the film as well as the style of film. For the thriller genre, there is ususally quite a simple monochrome colour scheme and the credits are relatively unobtrusive so that the audience is not disengaged from what they are seeing and can continue to be affected by the atmosphere created. We could create a ghostly feel by having credits float in and out of screen.There is usually non-diegetic music being played over the credits which gave the audience a sense of the genre again, it creates the atmosphere for the audience as well as suggesting what the first scene may contain by creating an emotion or mood from the type of music being played.

"Red Lights" had the typography I imagined our film would have, especially the black contrasting with the white and the way the font emerges and moves. I think using the white over black is a good choice as its plain, the emotion we’re going for in the film is sad and gloomy. By not using vibrant colours this will bring forward a sense of knowledge of the darker side of the drama already for the audience.

Most of the films had the characters' names involved in the credits, however in our film we will not be showing the names as we want the audience to view the film as being 'real' so drawing attention to the fact that these are actors right at the beginning is not a good idea. In this kind of film, there are often relatively new actors cast (so they don't have previous associations and are more believable) so their name isn't a big draw.

By viewing the range of films I now can visualise how ours will look, it has helped as it has given me even more ideas to possibly add in whilst filming and then editing.