Opening Credits - Improvements

We received a lot of feedback on our opening credits stating that they needed to be longer and given more interesting effects. To begin with we only had our three names as opening credits which appeared at equal intervals in the first minute of our film opening. They flashed in at different positions around the screen, for example:

After inserting these titles we then added in more opening credits so that there were more appearing throughout the film opening. These included another actors name who was not in our group, the Director of Photography, Producer, Co-Executive Producer and the editor. These were inserted between shots on a black background equally spread throughout and the named titles were placed at different locations around the screen.

To finalise we ensured these were all equally spread out throughout the film opening, also making sure they did not interfere with any match-on-action shots.

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.



Editing - Opening Credits

After our first initial draft of our film opening we decided that we needed to add in more titles as the feedback said there wasn't enough and we noticed this when reviewing it and the feedback said that they also stopped suddenly and didn't last long enough because there wasn't enough of them.
Early on in the editing when we added in the titles we decided and came to the conclusion after research that they needed to be 5 seconds away from each other. We also decided how long we wanted them to last for and we agreed on 4 seconds because it gives the viewer enough time to read them. In our first initial film opening draft we only included the names of the actual actors so to improve so there was real names we added in producers and editors as well as the names of  the actors that were in there.

Here is some screenshots on how we improved our opening titles:

Opening Credits - Titles

After completing all the footage editing, we had to add in opening credits throughout the film opening. These titles included our own names and other actors and producers.

We came to the conclusion that the first name would appear five seconds in, so that they began early and were equally spread throughout. We then decided that there should be another five second gap the next, so that they had an equal time length between each title. Each name was also edited to appear on the screen for an average of 4 seconds, so that they did not drag but the audience had enough time to read them. This also meant that they were all able to fit in to the time frame of our film opening suitably.