On a typical film, the order of the titles in the opening tend to follow a particular pattern. This order is replicated on nearly all films, making it a convention of media products.
Typical Order:
-lead actor/s
-film title
-other actors
-casting
-music/ editor/ production design/ dir. photography/ exec producer
-produced by
-written by
-directed by
For our coursework we challenged the typical conventions of a media product as we changed the order of the titles displayed. We decided to order our titles in the following way: film title, lead actor, created/ directed by, produced/ edited by, other actors, cinematography by. We decided on this order as we felt it fit well to the flow of the film, and if we'd had stuck to the typical order it wouldn't have fit well to the story. For example, we decided to start off with the film title as it was integrated into the establishing shots and it would, therefore, not fit with the story to go back to this after the lead actor title.
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