Research: Opening credits - Mrs. Quinlan

Opening credits

What are opening credits?

Opening credits are the text that are shown in the beginning of a movie showing things like the Production Company, main actors, editor and who it’s written by.  The purpose of opening credits is to inform the audience on all these things because a lot of them are interested in who is in the film or who produced it so that they know on what to expect from the film.

What is their purpose?

The purpose of opening credits is to inform the audience on who produced the movie and who stars in the movie. Opening credits also have sequences which foreshadow what is going to happen in the movie and this gives the audience a good Idea of what is going to be in the movie.

What information do they provide?

Production Company

Studio name

Producers

Actors

Editors

Soundtrack

Costume

Story board

Written by

How do they make the audience feel?

How they make the audience feel depends on what type of opening it is. If it’s just a black screen with writing on top of it the audience will get easily bored. But if the opening credits have a nice soundtrack with it and the images in the background show meaning to the movie the audience will get entertained by watching the opening credits. The opening credits are extremely important because the audience will know what to expect from the movie by seeing the opening credits.

Purge opening credits analysis

The opening scene of the purge foreshadows what is going to happen in the movie as it shows videos of people committing crimes in the night as the movie has a theme of crime. The opening credits still show conventional stuff such as Production Company, studio name actors. This opening credits does not make the audience bored so the audience will most likely continue watching the movie because the opening credits were interesting.

Conclusion

In conclusion researching about opening credits has improved my understanding on what they put on the opening credits and what is conventional to an opening credit scene. This will help me create my own thriller opening because I now have a few ideas on how I am going to include opening credits for my thriller opening.