Title Sequence Research

I have looked at two title sequences of films vaguely similar to ours to look at the the graphics used and the timings.

The timings are listed here:

Juno Title Sequence

·      00:15 – Fox Searchlight Pictures

·      00:21 – A Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production

·      00:26 – A Jason Reitman Film

·      00:30 – Juno

·      00:40 – Ellen Page

·      00:44 – Michael Cera

·      00:49 – Jennifer Garner

·      00:57 – Jason Bateman

·      01:02 – Allison Janney

·      01:06 – J.K. Simmons

·      01:11 – Olivia Thirlby

·      01:18 – Casting by Mindy Marin, C.S.A. and Kara Lipson

·      01:22 – Costume Designer – Monique Prudhomme

·      01:27 – Music by Mateo Messina, Songs by Kimya Dawson

·      01:33 – Music Supervisors – Peter Afterman and Margaret Yen

·      01:40 – Co-Producers – Jim Miller, Kelli Konop, Brad van Arragon

·      01:44 – Film Editor – Dana E. Glauberman

·      01:49 – Production Designer – Steve Saklad

·      01:54 – Director of Photography – Eric Steelberg

·      01:59 – Exec. Producers – Joe Drake, Nathan Kahane, Daniel Dubiecki

·      02:05 – Produced by Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Mason Novick, Russell Smith

·      02:10 – Written by Diablo Cody

·      02:18 – Directed by Jason Reitman

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Title Sequence

·      00:20 – Universal Pictures Presents

·      00:24 – A Marc Platt, Big Talk Films and Closed on Mondays Production

·      00:31 – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

·      00:34 – Michael Cera

·      00:37 – Mary Elizabeth Winstead

·      00:39 – Kieran Culkin

·      00:41 – Chris Evans

·      00:44 – Anna Kendrick

·      00:47 – Brie Larson

·      00:50 – Alison Pill

·      00:52 – Aubrey Plaza

·      00:55 – Brandon Routh

·      00:58 – Jason Schwartzman

·      01:01 – Johnny Simmons

·      01:03 – Mark Webber

·      01:06 – Mae Whitman

·      01:09 – Ellen Wong

·      01:11 – Satya Bhabha, Keita Saito, Shota Saito

·      01:14 – Casting by Allison Jones, Robin Cook, C.S.A. and Jennifer Euston, C.S.A.

·      01:17 – Music composed by Nigel Godrich

·      01:19 – Music Supervisor – Kathy Nelson

·      01:22 – Co-Producers – Joe Nozemack, Lisa Gitter, Steven V. Scavelli

·      01:25 – Costume Designer – Laura Jean Shannon

·      01:27 – Visual Effects Supervisor – Frazer Churchill

·      01:30 – Jonathon Amos, Paul Machliss

·      01:33 – Production Designer – Marcus Rowland

·      01:35 – Director of Photography – Bill Pope, A.S.C

·      01:38 – Exec. Producers – Ronaldo Vasconcellos, J.Miles Dale

·      01:40 – Exec. Producers – Jared Leboff, Adam Siegel

·      01:43 – Produced by Marc Platt, Eric Glitter

·      01:46 – Produced by Nira Park, Edgar Wright

·      01:48 – Based on the Oni Press Graphic Novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley

·      01:51 – Screenplay by Michael Bacall and Edgar Wright

·      02:00 – Directed by Edgar Wright

From this, I have learnt that there are often a large amount of credits to fit into what is generally a two minute slot. In the case of Juno, the credits even fill a slot longer than two minutes, so we will need to use less credits than them for our two minute opening. It is also clear that all the various departments are given credits individually, rather than displaying lots of credits all at once, so we must make sure to do that also.