Openings to shows and films

Spooks



Spooks opens with many spilt screens and has many different images of iconic images of London. It introduces all the main character. To show this is a more mysterious and serious show they have every character looking serious and worried. The introduction shows clips of their day to day struggle they have to deal with and the dangers as MI5 agents. The only piece of text that we see is at the end when it is telling us what show we are watching at the end of the introduction.

Serenity



Middle of the screen white coloured writing with a black background. Size 14-15. Easy to see no distraction from the background. Some of the writing comes in at you to emphasizing the audience to read the text. The only Dietetic sound is the music which goes with the action on the film.

Hustle



The opening title in Hustle coincides with the music they play. The opening credits are cleverly put in when the music tunes. The writing is all in white and always near the centre of the screen so your eyes are pealed to the credits and the music fits in as a background noise. Another thing which makes this opening so good is that you do not have to chase around to look for the credits as all the credits are around the middle of the screen.

New Tricks


The opening is a bit different in how they show the opening credits. The text is still on the middle part of the rule of thirds but the writing is more to the bottom than the top. Also the colour of the text is a mixture of white a yellow but we the audience can still read what is on the screen as it matches the actors to the credits.

The Usual Suspects


The credits which are shown here is interesting as it shows the actors name right at the end of the trailer. It comes after the footage of the trailer and after the showing of the title of the film. They also post the names of the actors in different places but they show the names one by one. You also get a good 2 seconds to read the names off so the brain isn't being challenged to follow the credits.


What I have noticed in these introductions and trailers follow the same type of pattern. The credits are written in white because it is the clearest colour. When they show the written credits they normally have very minimal things in the background so that the audience is focusing only on the text. The majority of the time the text is in the middle of the screen as it makes the audience aware of the text which is in front of them. We can use a lot of these basic, but effective, techniques to grab the audiences attention to something specific. I will be doing some futher investigation into this and have a look at different blogs to see what they saying about Credits and how to present them.