Titles - What are they and how can they be used?

 Titles 

Titles are to portray the institutional and creative names involved in the funding, making and producing from the production, which consist of the writer, editor, director, studio, producers, company and top cast. 

As they are incorporated as credits at the end of the film, the key information is often shown before the film begins, it's referred to as a title sequence, as it is the first thing the viewer will see, therefore the audience are more aware of what's on the screen, and due to their excitement of watching the film, they are concentrated and focused. 

The roles which are always found in an opening credit sequence appear in a specific order. There are usually 21 titles that are in opening credit sequences: 

1. Money
2. Production
3. Directors name film
4. Main star
5. Film title
6. Actor 1 (end of main section)
7. Actor 2
8. Actor 3
9. Actor 4
10. Actor 5
11. Casting
12. Costume designer 
13. Music
14. Edited 
15. Production designer 
16. Director of photography 
17. Executive producer
18. Produced by
19. Based upon
20. Screen play (writer)
21. Director

The director is always the last title to appear on the screen or the first, this shows their importance and also give them the most credit as it is either the first thing the audience see or the last thing.

In the title credits of Wonder Woman, the title 'directed by' is presented through a gold ring, which draws attention and grabs your eye and makes this title the main focal point.

The font, colours, framing/screen placement and pace of credits, transitions and edit all applies to the creative aspect of a title sequence. Why? Because these are all factors that influence how the viewer may perceive what type of genre it is, what the narrative may be, the tone of the film and the time / setting the film may be set in. 

The use of these title credits provide a narrative that this production may be about the internet and online use, due to the font and ways they have used their imagination to portray the credits in different ways (using the sound-cloud logo to place a credit). The use of this title sequence being portrayed this way provides information that this is a movie is a more updated film and possibly set in the 2015/2016.
 

In this opening title sequence the audience are able to identify the genre for this film, which would be horror, due to the colours used and the font. Black signifies the unknown, mysterious, horror, dark and gothic which all influence the idea why this is a horror movie, and the lack of life and colour within this sequence. The style of the writing is bold and creates a sense of eeriness. Throughout this title sequence it also provides information of the setting/time this may be in, which is around the time of the war, due to soldiers presented on the screen.