Saturday 19 January 2013

Research into opening sequences: Credit Order

For my individual research I looked at the order of the credits in opening sequences. I found that the order is determined by guild rules, but the order is normally due to importance, with the most important going first. However, this role reverses after the title of the film where you work backwards until you get to the director. The common order is as follows:

PRODUCTION COMPANY presents
 a NAME LASTNAME production
a NAME LASTNAME film
"TITLE"
Lead Cast
Supporting Cast
Casting Director
Music Composer
Costume Designer
Associate Producers
Editor(s)
Production Designer
Director of Photography
Executive Producer
Producer
Writer(s)
Director

An example of this is in Dexter.

This starts with the distribution company, then the title "Dexter". It then gives the lead actor Micheal C. Hall. Then the supporting cast. It then says the writer and producer James Manos, JR. who developed the program The composer of the title music comes next after what the show was based off, then who did the other music. Then comes the editor, the production designer, the director of photography, the producer, the co-executive producers and finally the executive producers.

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