Opening Credits Research

I decided to research the film The Infidel, a Revolver Entertainment Film, to study the opening credits. This gave me an idea about how to interoperate credits into the opening of our main brief. Even though the genre is a comedy, I felt that these credits would help me in making the decision of making the credits be labelled in the horror genre, therefore making it almost opposite to some of the elements within these credits.


Colour
The credits change from a deep red font on the background, to a light blue font when the characters appear on the screen. The companies names are said first clearly on a plain background. However, it is clear to see the other fonts when the characters on screen, because they appear in unusual places so therefore catch the eye of the audience.


We decided to use the colours red and white for our opening. This is because, white has connotations of innocence, therefore the colour white symbolises the young child who becomes possessed. The colour red connotes evil and danger, which represents the paranormal thing that possesses her. The two colours are contrasting which depicts the storyline to the audience. We interoperated the idea of unusual placing for the credits in our piece, so that it became interested and allowed the audience to concentrate.


Speed
The credits last for a long time in this particular opening sequence. The full set of credits finished at around 4 minutes 38 seconds, on the directors names. The credits are shown at the beginning of the film so that it isn't distracting throughout the rest of the film.


When watching the credits of The Infidel, I notices that the credits took quite long and I became quite bored. Therefore for our piece, the credits almost fly in and don't stay on the screen for very long, so that the audience do no get bored but excited to see the film start.