Monday, November 23, 2015

Opening Credits Analysis

Shutter Island


As soon as the opening credits begin 'A film by Martin Scorsese' comes onto the screen after that; at 5 seconds 'produced by Micke Mcdavdy Arnold Messer', at 11 seconds 'screenplay by Leata Kalogridis', at 14 seconds 'based on the novel by Dennis Lehane', at 17 seconds 'director of photography Robert Richardson', at 28 seconds 'Ben Kingsley', at 32 seconds 'Leonardo Dicaprio', at 38 seconds 'Mark Buffalo', at 43 seconds 'edited by Thelma Schoonmaker', at 48 seconds 'music by Robbie Robertson' and at 57 seconds 'Shutter Island'.
 
 
 
The Hunger Games Mocking Jay

 
 
In the opening credits of The Hunger Games, Mocking Jay film it displays the production companies, after this they show us the opening credits in the following order:
 1.06: T1 ‘Produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kirk’, 1.15: T2 ‘Executive producer Suzanna Collins’, 1.29: T3 ‘Co-operator Jan Foster’, 1.37: T4 Jennifer Lawrence, 1.57: T5 Josh, Hutcherson, 2.04: T6 Liam Hemsworth, 2.10: T7 Woody Harrelson, 2.13: T8 Philip Seymour Hoffman,  2.19: T9 Stanley Tucci, 2.21: T10 Donald Sutherland, 2.24: T11 Jeffrey Wright, 2.25: T12 Julianna Moore, 2.28: T13 Elizabeth Banks, 2.34: T14 Film title ‘The Hunger Games, Mocking Jay’, 2.46: T15 Sam Clafin, Willow Sheilds, Jena Malone, Natalie Dormer, 2.49: T16 ‘Casting by Debra Zane, CSA’, 2.51: T17 ‘Edited by Alan Edward Bell and Mark Yoshikawa’, 2.56: T18 ‘Visual Effects Supervisor, Charles Gibson’, 3.00: T19 Costume Design, Kurt and Bart, 3.03: T20 Production Designer Phillip Messina, 3.08: T21 Director of Photography Jo Willems, BC , 3.11: T22 based upon the novel ‘Mocking Jay’ by Suzanna Collins, 3.13: T23 Screened by Peter Craig and Danny Strong.


The order of which names appear is similar in both of the above opening sequences. They both begin with the names of producers and other people who were involved with the making of the film. They both then give the names of the actors in the film and then give other names of people such as the 'director of photography'. The titles seem to appear in order of authority. A difference in the two opening sequences is that the name of the film spears at different times. In Shutter island the name of the film appears last whereas the Hunger Games Mocking Jay appears in the middle of the opening sequence as the 14th title out of 23.
 

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