Film Timelines

 Movie Opening Timeline's
So for the three movie's i had to do, i chose Transformers, Hot Fuzz and Forrest Gump. And by the different types of genre you can really see the difference in the amount of title's shown in the opening scene.

To start off with and the top timeline was Transformers. from the beginning there were only a few titles that appeared. these were the production companies and to the end of the first scene the title appeared. In my opinion I think that they done this because of the type of genre the film is and the type of people who are watching it are different. As Transformers is a big Hollywood blockbuster the people watching the film don't really want to see all of the titles at the beginning, they want to see all of the violence and damage. this is why i think that they limited the amount of titles as they were trying to let the viewer get right into the action. we can see that this is different with the second film I chose.

 The second film I chose to do was Hot Fuzz. This film's genre is more comedy however does show a few signs of action in. The opening to this film had a lot more titles in however. From the beginning you had the classic Universal into play, then it had all of the production companies slowly played before the character got to the screen. this is when a montage started to play. this i think was done because they wanted the slow intro and to have more production companies titles shown at the beginning, however this is nothing compared to the last film i chose.


The last film i chose to do was Forrest Gump and this had a lot of titles in! from the very beginning it had the production companies names shown, then to the producers, then the director, followed by the cast. After that they had some of the main people who made the film possible like the music producer, editor and director of photography. lastly followed by the director and the producers. I think that this was done because they wanted to put all of the main workers name's in at the beginning to show them off instead of the end because most people don't stick around for the credits. So if they played the main workers names at the beginning like the editor it would mean that more people are able to see their names. I think that they put the titles in the order of most importance. So first you would have the production company which would have had the funding and all of the equipment, then the producers that would have produced the script and everything else they needed, followed by the director and actors who played in the film. Lastly followed by people behind the scenes like the editor and music producer. This meant that more people could see the names of the people before the film was to end.

Overall this will help me when it comes to making my final film as it will show us what titles we should have on them, as well as what order they should be in and how long they should be up there for. Forrest Gump also sort of fits in the genre that i have picked so i can copy the order in which they come up from there.