Timeline of When Titles Appear

This is England;

Timeline of when titles appear in the first 2 minutes:

0:05 – 'Filmfour and the UK FILM COUNCIL present'
0:10 – 'In association with EM MEDIA and SCREEN YORKSHIRE'
0:15 – 'A WARP FILMS production'
0:20 – 'In association with BIG ARTY PRODUCTIONS'
0:22 – 'A SHANE MEADOWS film'
0:34 – Film title (Superimposed)
0:41 – Staring… (Superimposed)
0:48 – Staring… (Superimposed)
0:54 – Staring… (Superimposed)
1:02 – Staring… (Superimposed)
1:08 – Staring… (Superimposed)
1:25 – Staring… (Superimposed)
1:32 – Staring… (Superimposed)
1:38 – Staring… (Superimposed)
1:44 – Staring… (Superimposed)

After watching the opening of 'This is England' i wrote down every title which was in it saying what it was. With the other two people in my group, i compared it to the opening sequence of 'The football factory' and 'Adulthood'. After comparing it was soon clear 'The football factory' has the most amount of titles in the opening sequence. It tells us who the lead character is after 16 seconds, because he is a well known and great actor. However on the other hand 'Adulthood' did not show who was staring in the film. This was probably down to the fact many of the leading characters are unknown. From the film i did 'This is England' I noticed all the main titles such as the production company and in association with was in the first 20 seconds. There was also a large amount of titles showing who was staring in the film suggesting many of the actors are well known. This will help us in our opening film as it gives us an idea of when we should put in each title in.

The titles we decided to put in our opening scene were:

- The name of our film

- The Production company

- In association with

- Names of who was starring

- Directors name