Title Sequence Coursework - Order of the Credits

Normally the order of the credits that should appear in our title sequence is:

1. Studio Logo
2. 'Production company presents...'
3. Film title
4. Actors/actresses names (main characters only)
5. Any of these:
• casting 
• production designer
• costume
• make-up
• special effects
• music
• sound editor
6. Editor
7. Director of Photography
8. Executive Producer(s)
9. Producer(s)
10. Writer(s)
11. Director

Examples of title sequences with the same order:

The Poker Club - Title Sequence

Title Sequence Coursework - Codes and Conventions

Codes and conventions of an Action Thriller films are listed below.

• Low key lighting
• quick cuts
• fast pace
• busy location/setting
• revolves some sort of enigma 

These are codes and conventions, I should use these to make my title sequence to make it loom eerie and mysterious.

Title Sequence Coursework - Importance of Typography

Typography is important, especially to a title sequence, but sometimes it might be overlooked. Each title we see is specifically designed to express different viewpoints. The typography of something can change the entire look and feel of the title sequence.

The first importance typography is that it attracts the attention of the audience. Typography can carry a certain mood or feeling of the sequence, which the audience will understand and get the message, of the atmosphere, you are trying to communicate. Having the right font can convey the tone of you film to the audience and illustrate the film’s genre.

The second importance of typography it is easy to read.  The audience should be able to read it clearly when watching the title sequence. The fonts and sizes are important because you have to make them important to convey the messages of the film. If fonts are too small or cramped together it could be hard to read and the audience would immediately ignore them. They have to be easy to comprehend.

Another significance of typography is that it establishes an information hierarchy. Different sized and types of fonts means the audience can focus on the parts that are most important. For example, someone will pay more attention to writing that is bigger and bolder than writing that is small and less important.

Furthermore, an importance of typography is that it helps to create harmony. When you use the same font throughout the title sequence, it unifies it, showing that they are linked and it creates a sense of continuity and simplicity.

The last importance of typography is that it created and builds recognition. The fonts that you use in the title sequence will be remembered as visuals and the audience will remember them. 

These are examples of how typography can convey different messages and set different moods and atmospheres.



This typography looks colourful and exciting, which makes it convey happiness. We see this because the bold font attracts our attention and the vivid colours interests us into to looking at the text. This text shows happiness.




The typography to the left is shown to be scary and mysterious. This is because the design of the font is disturbing and makes us feel uncomfortable. The blood like look to the typography makes us feel uneasy as blood is seen as a gruesome thing. This is why this typography conveys scariness. 

Title Sequence Coursework - Cast(1)

I have chosen who I want the cast and crew in my film and title sequence to be. For the cast I will stating who will be playing the characters and explain why, and for the cast I will state who they are and the reason why I chose them for that particular role.

Firstly, I chose Liam Neeson to play the role of the lead male, who is the oppsessive detective and the father of one of the girls. I chose Liam Neeson to play this character because he has has experience in working in a similar films like Obsession. For example, the action packed thriller, Taken, where his daughter gets kidnapped and he does everything to try get her back. In the Taken film it shows the father daughter relationship and I want this to be shown in our film. 

Secondly, I chose Jennifer Lawrence to play the role of the lead girl. She is apart of the four girls who are robbing banks. Coincidently she is the daughter of the detective that has been on the case of the bank robberies. I chose Jennifer Lawrence to star as the lead girl because she plays the strong female role in The Hunger Games trilogy. As she plays a strong female lead in The Hunger Games trilogy, I think she can replicate the bravery sand intelligence when performing the role of the main girl.

The actresses that I think should play the remaining three girls are Grace Phipps, Melissa Benoist and Margot Robbie. I think that using these actresses would be good as these girls have all been in some sort of action film. This shows that they know how to play roles in an action film.

Title Sequence Coursework - History of Title Sequences

I found this video of the history of title sequences. This shows all the famous designers who made title sequences what they are now. These designers basically created the codes and conventions of film's title sequences. Designers like Saul Bass inspired many other to create title sequences that had meaning and creates the mood and atmosphere for the film.

Title Sequence Coursework - Films Which Helped With My Idea

Films that helped me with coming up with the narrative of my film were Spring Breakers and Taken. Spring Breakers inspired the idea of four girls robbing banks, which was originally four girls committing crimes in the Spring Breaks. The relationship between the father and the daughter in my narrative, is shown in Taken between the main character Bryan Mills and his daughter Kim. 

We used the small features from the films Spring Breakers and Taken to give us an idea of what kind of narrative we would want it to be. The ideas of the four girls committing crimes and the father-daughter relationship helped us built the narrative. We built a narrative around the idea by adding a storyline to it, making it interesting and engaging. By joining the features, of the four girls and the father-daughter relationship, together made the narrative exciting as we included the daughter as one of the four girls.