Portfolio Project 5 credits

    #5 credits 

    Openings credits are gonna be tricky cause it's gonna lead to the team arguing at least a little bit on who is which role, how do three people working on a project were they were all assigned decided on who is say the project's director? I don't know, it's tricky to judge and I'm sure we will decide on who gets what when the time comes. For now I just wanna figure out how to actually write these credits, which I'm realizing is harder than I expected since a lot has to go into them for them to make sense. I'll be looking at three opening credits in my genre and analyzing them.

Get Out (2017)

Get Out is basically the first movie that comes to my mind when the term 'psychological' is said so this was an obvious one. The credits notably start after the film's opening which is something that we obviously won't get to do but is notable nonetheless. Alright, the order of the credits are: production and distribution companies, these make sense to include first however I don't think we really gotta worry about them, don't really have much of a distribution company behind me. Then, director, kinda. Jordan Peele's name isn't listed as director, they just say this is "a Jordan Peele film" something which we are OBVIOUSLY not gonna do because that would really rude, I guess we all will be listed as directors but I don't know. The film then cuts to the big TITLE CARD! With the background being an endless forest that the camera zooms past. This forest location only lists the TITLE CARD that I just mentioned and all the film's actors, who are notably not listed with "starring" over them, good to know, I guess actors are the most obvious things that your mind auto-fills when you just see names listed like that, but since my opening is only gonna have like two people I think I'm safer just listing them under "starring" or something similar. As soon as they list all the actors we cut to the interior of a home where the rest of the credits are shown. One thing notable is that producers are listed last, going Co-producers, executive producers, and then producers. After that they list Jordan Peele as writer and director, interesting to consider how that role is listed twice but with different names, I'll keep it in mind when making the opening.

A little fact that I noticed about this opening is that the blue text might be in reference to....

  

The Shining (1980)

Now that I'm getting a good look at them, I'm realizing that The Shining has strange opening credits, they don't ever stop scrolling up, they start about half way through the opening, and they don't slow down for the film's TITLE CARD which is written with no capitalization. If I had to guess I'd say this was done to really make you feel like you just walked into a bizarre and uncomfortable place, and also to make you feel lonely and desolate by not putting a lot of emphasis or attention on the TITLE CARD, making the audience feel what the family must have felt while in this desolate hotel. Listing wise some things are different: the two main leads are listed before the TITLE CARD is shown, before going back to listing cast member, the production and distribution companies show up after the actors instead of at the very start, and screenplay writers are listed before producers. Notably directors and producers are still listed last and are now bundled, I'll keep that in mind too.

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)

This movie doesn't even have opening credits, it has 20-minutes-into-the-movie credits, made it annoying when looking up youtube videos for this, made me have to go rewatch the opening with the film it self. I didn't mention it while talking about The Shining, but just like Get Out, it has the director's name listed as "a _ film" and this movie notably doesn't. These opening credits are a lot more hidden than the other two, while they had the credits in the middle of the screen, this one has them at the bottom left corner. The Shining basically wanted to have your focus on the credits, Get Out wanted you to focus on both them and what was going on behind them, but this movie really wants your attention on the montage in the screen of Jim Carrey walking driving around and being all depressed.