Research: Opening Credits

Film opening credits generally depend on the size of the production and the number of people involved in creating it. In research, an opening which contained a huge number of titles was Skyfall. Watching the video above it is evident that there was a very large team involved in producing it.


Realistically, the more people involved in a film the longer the credits. What we then did was to look at more film openings on artofthetitle.com to discover what names were mentioned in every film, as these would be the ones that a smaller, low budget film (alike our own) would need to use. These are the ones which we came up with.


-Distribution company
-Production company
-Name of main actor
-Co-actors
-Casting director
-Costume and Make-up
-Music
-Director of photography
-Editor
-Screenplay
-Producer
-Director


As seen from Skyfall in Hollywood films there are a lot of other roles which are mentioned to give people credit for their work. However in a smaller film only the key names must be mentioned as there are much less people involved in the creative process.