Art of the title

Hello! In order to get more information on the opening titles of movies, my group and I went to the website www.artofthetitle.com. At this website, you can find information on titles from all types of films from documentaries to feature films. With this website, you can also get summaries of films along with interviews with the cast and crew of the film. The opening titles of a film are very important because they set up the tone of the film and they are the audiences first impressions of the movie. The reason my group and I had to visit this website was because we need to research title sequences for our project. We watched a variety of horror movie openings and we noticed a couple of things. The first thing that we noticed is that all of the titles that we watched had an unsettling tone to them. The titles are usually displayed on a black screen but sometimes images or scenes will flash on the screen that will help to tell the story. For all of the titles, music was playing and helped to heighten the creepy and disturbing atmosphere of the film. I learned that the titles should be relatively short and should not take up too much time. Another thing that my group and I noticed is that the opening titles seem to be displayed in a specific order. The first title that would show up was usually the main cast but sometimes the main title would be the director and the name of the movie. After the cast, the titles for make-up and sound would be shown. After them, the producers and the movie company that helped to create the film was displayed. And most of the time, if it wasn’t shown in the beginning, the writer and director of the film would show up followed by the title of the name of the film. Using this website showed me what a proper horror movie opening title sequence should look like.