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                            Credit ideas

   Well hello again, in the past 24 hours i’ve realized that there is two part to a film opening, the film itself and the credit scenes. Since I’ve already discussed three films opening scenes, I want to find more about three other filmed credit scenes. 

            

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  before I go into more detail,  I want to give you a clear idea of what a credit scene is. They all have the same purpose to give credit to those main workers behind the films. It introduces the productions companies, main cast and crew members. For example, the director, main actor, producer, writer, cinematographer, editor and etc.The production companies typically have a logo to demonstrate their company and maybe a sound, for example, ‘Metro Goldwyn Mayer’ their logo has a lion in which contains a roar to acknowledge that their production company took part in the film, its memorable and iconic. Then majority of the times the insert of the main cast and crew members are engraved during clips of the film. Many try to stay within films theme and genre while other try to stay completely separate from the films theme and just neutral. These are just what I’ve seen in many film and shows there are other ways these are just the most common methods.

  

               Research

“The Matrix (1999)” the opening credit scene doesn’t introduce the main actors and crew members. It does however introduce the production companies that took part in this film. ‘Warner Bros. Pictures’ and ‘Village Roadshow Pictures’ they are the production companies for “The Matrix”. In both of the company’s logos they have adjusted the colors to help better fit the film. And in turn to correspond the films themes and genre they didn’t change the design of the logos but simply the color to correspond to the movie. Since it doesn’t have what I need for my credit scene it’s not a perfect example. Although, it’s a good example to show a how credit scenes can blend into a films theme and make a seamless transition.

“The Terminator (1984)”  the film is based on a cyborg that is from the 21st century and sent to the present-day (the 80s) to assassinate a women.  The opening credit scene start with introducing the production companies that took part. Unlike in “The Matrix”, “The Terminator” production companies don’t try to helm in seamlessly with the films theme but just stay neutral. The company’s logo of “Metro Goldwyn Mayer” and “Orion Pictures Release” are shown but then we get a block of text saying “Hemdale Presents A Pacific Western Production Of A James Cameron Film”. That was all of the credits to the production companies. Secondly, it further dwells into the film, we get a in the background the letters of “The Terminator”  forming while we get different blocks of text with the main actors, editor, director, writer, cinematographer, sound producer, and casting director. With the zoom out of the the title “The Terminator” in a futuristic font to indicate the theme of the film.

“Interstellar (2014)” the films follows a group of astronauts who travel through a wormhole near Saturn in search for a new home for mankind because earth is becoming inhabitable.  The opening credits follows the same as “The Matrix” it doesn’t account the main actors or crew members taking apart in the film but simply just the production companies. ‘Warner Bros. Pictures’, ‘Paramount’,  ‘Legendary Pictures’  and ‘Syncopy Inc.’all follow the same color theory of the film and replicate their themes and genre. This causes a seamless transition between the two.

    To conclude, I believe the best approach is discussing what sort of fonts and editing can I undergo for a production company. For my opening I’m thinking of including one to two companies depending on how well I can manage my time. It’s important to even see how long will it take to edit a “production company”. I was already deciding whether or not I would want it to be natural or blend in with my film, this just helped me decide. I love when it matches with films and causes that transitions so I will try to incorporate color theory in my film meaning I have to se which approach will be best, color wise of course. For the other main cast and crew I’ll just make sure to include them while I’m establishing the setting in my film. This research help settle my ideas and actually come up with different logos already I’m so excited to show you what I’m planning.

Until next time!