D.B: Titles Research

I have been doing some extensive research on what are titles should consist of and how we can incorporate them into our opening sequence. I have come to numerous conclusions from my research:

• The order of the titles are decided by the amount of work and time the person must do to contribute in the production of the film. For example,  films that are quite gruesome and graphic often credit the make-up & prosthetic designer fairly soon after the director and producer.
• Some films will credit the cast before the crew whereas others the crew before the cast. It all depends on the main selling point for the film.
• Main contributors to each department are credited alone. A major name will be credited with no other name but their own on the screen even if they have worked with other people, other roles that are considered to have done slightly less work will be credited along with other members of their team.
• Actors that have a major part will be credited before any other role. In our opening sequence, Hannah is the main character but she does not feature heavily in the actual film. Bridget will be our main character therefore the actress that plays her would be the first actor's name that would appear. It would be followed by Eloise's name because she plays the antagonist and therefore would also have a major role in the film. Hannah would be credited nearer the end of the titles and in a list with other minor roles because her only appearance is in the title sequence and briefly in pictures in the film.

• Evil Dead (Alejandro Damiani, 2013) shows the title of the film as the very first thing that the audience will see. We will not do this for our own sequence but it did give us inspiration of how we will order the crediting our cast and crew.

• Some of the credits, in the clips that I researched, didn't start until quite late into the sequence. For example, in The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) the first title only appears at 1:05 into the sequence. In The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973) the first title was shown 1:38 into the sequence. However, the majority of the sequences that I researched started showing their titles in the first shot. Almost every time the first credit to appear started with the sponsor or director of the film written as 'A [sponsor/ director] Film'. We took this inspiration to imitate it into our own title sequence and we wish to show it in the first shot.

• It is important that, despite the fact we are the sole people who have created the sequence, it would seem unprofessional to name ourselves numerous times. Instead, I have researched professional names that would be appropriate and could realistically work on the film we would make. These are the people I have researched so far:

A [insert sponsor here] Film
Directed By: James Wan 
(Director of previous films such as Insidious, The Conjuring and The Silence) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wan 
Screenplay By: Diane Johnson 
(Co-aurthored the Shining and often writes about strong women who live abroad - the exact storyline of our film) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Johnson
                              Scott Spiegel
(Previously worked as a Writer, Executive Producer and small time Actor on horror films) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Spiegel
Produced By: Danielle Booker, Alex Mcdowell, Laurel Parfitt
(this will be repeated 3 times for each of our names. As we are the people who have created the sequence it is right that our names would be credited with no other name but our own on the screen to avoid distraction from the praise.)
Executive Producer: Scott Spiegel
Co-Producers: Robert Shaye 
co produced Nightmare on elms street
Line Producer: Jeanette Brill 
(Previously worked on titles such as Insidious 1& 2 and Sinister) - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0901822/
Director of Photography: John. R. Leonetti 
(He is most well-known for collaborating with James Wan and has previously worked on titles such as The Woods and I Know Who Killed Me) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Leonetti
Production Designer: Kave Quinn
( Worked on beautiful titles such as Trainspotting and The Woman in Black) - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0623289/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr23
Film Editor: Kirk. M. Morri
(Has mainly worked on horror films such as The Hills Have Eyes II, Pulse and The Conjuring) - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0606294/
Costume Designer: Keith Madden
Women in Black costume designer
Hair & Make-up Designer: Shaun Smith 
Worked on Cabin In The Woods
Make-up & Prosthetic Design By: Rich Krussell
 Worked on Sinister
Visual Effects Supervisor: John MacGillivray 
(Worked on previous horror films such as Mama, American Psycho and Carrie) - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0532268/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr82
Casting: Stephanie Holbrook
(Worked on perfectly casted titles such as Life Aquatic and The Happening) - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1220923/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr17