Film Opening - Opening Credits Improvements

We received feedback on our opening credits and a large amount of the groups said that we needed to add in more names and make the placement of them more interesting. Originally we had just our names in the film opening which appeared at equal intervals at the beginning of the film opening in the corners of the shots.

We then added some more names which appeared in between shots at the beginning when our names appeared. We added in names for the Director of Photography, the Producer, the Co-Executive Producer, and the Editor all of which appeared for a couple of seconds before the shots with the two girls and their dog appeared again.



When adding the shots in we made sure that the placement of the names varied in each one, but also ensured that the font and size of the text was the same each time it appeared. We made the top line of the credits a slightly different font to the name underneath as well as a different size as the name. As well as this we changed the placement of the names so that some appeared in the centre whilst others appeared on the right hand side or two names appeared in separate corners of the shot to make it more interesting.  These are the names we added in between the shots of the girls walking the dogs.

After adding in the other names we decided that the titles were all very close together at the beginning of the film opening. So we spaced out the names so that they appeared throughout the film opening and then stopped towards the end of it as the tension started to build. We also added in a few more names so that they lasted for the majority of the film opening.

 

We then decided that in order to make the opening titles more interesting we could add in some animation so that the text flickered and moved around when it appeared. This would make the opening titles more eerie and tense than plain text would. We did this by changing the opacity so that it flickered a couple times as it was visible. As well as this we made the text move by adding in the same text again but placing it in a different place in between the two pieces of the original placement of the text. When played back the text moved slightly from where it was and flickered at the same time.