Overview & Institutions

Overview and Institutions 

Overview

Now that I have finished my analyses of action and thriller films I can see that there is a structure that the opening credits do follow and it tends to start with the production company and then the distributor. The main actors then follow and then the casting by, co-producers, music by, editors, director of photography, production designer, executive producer, story by, produced by and directed by. This is the structure that I will follow in my project. 

From the opening credits that I have watched, I have noticed that images of what is to come in the film are shown and they each have their own meaning. A range of shots are used and I would like to use a lots of shots in my project. I would also like to use a range of camera movements in my project because this will be quite interesting to work with for my chosen genre. 

The fonts that have been used in the opening credits are interesting, for example, the fonts used in Terminator are very interesting because they look like a coding font used on a computer. I would like to use fonts like this for my opening credits because it will be useful in connoting that type of film I am making. The colour of the font is also very important in the opening credits, for example, the colour of the fonts in Alien are white and this contrasts with the colour of the shot which is dark. This connotes that there is going to be conflict in the film which is the message that I would like to get across in my project. 

All of the opening credits I have analysed have used music and the music they have used is very useful in setting the scene. For example, the music in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a well known piece of music (Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin) which has been re-written for this film. I would also like to use music in a way that will be able to help define my project, something either really heavy or sinister like the music from Alien. 

Institutions

All of the opening credits I have analysed have used different distributors and companies so I will use MGM.