Planning opening credit - Miss Georgiou

The purpose of opening credits are to introduce the narrative, allow the audience to know what type of film they're expecting to see by the director shown, for the audience to know information about a film - the directors and actors. Lastly, the font and style of writing can allow the audience to know what genre they are watching.

We had then analysed the film "Se7en" and saw that the opening sequence incorporated conventional fonts and credits. These were slender and in white handwriting style which gave it its sinister look, this is effective because the audience can connote that the font mirrors the antagonist's personality of being sinister and having a slender physique. The font that they used were made to look sharp and edgy, this gives it the effect that the letters represent and mirror the main antagonist's personality. This is conventional to the thriller genre because the antagonists are commonly represented as being sinister and edgy, which are portrayed through the font styles they use. This also helps the audience build a negative relationship with the antagonist before even seeing him as they can forebode his personality. It also displayed the actors and directors names in the order of most famous, for example Samuel L Jackson's name appeared first before anyone else, then followed on by Brad Pitt. This is done to engage the audience into the film because they are seeing well known names first, which helps them to become attached to the film only due to the actors and directors, this also allows the fans of the actors to want to watch the film due to their large fanbase, thus they will want to see how well the actor act in the film. Furthermore, it continued with the camera crew and co producers, these came up after the others because they are less important and known to the audience, however they still needed to be included as they are part of the cast and crew.

Group member 1 - Leo 

Strengths: I think that the strengths of my opening credits is that it includes the generic conventional colours of red, black and white. This can symbolise the purity of the colour white, which is associated with the female victim and the colour red can symbolise blood and death in association with the clown antagonist. I also think that my style of writing is conventional to the thriller genre because it is long and slender, which the audience can infer it mirrors the antagonist.

Weakness: I think that my weakness is that I need to slightly brighten the red colour for "New Line Cinema Productions", this is because i don't think that the audience are able to see it clearly, thus it will make it stand out more.

Group member 2 - Samara 

Strengths: The strength of Samara's design is that she has chosen to use a glow effect which helps to make her title stand out against the black background. It is also in white, which could symbolise the female victim and the background is black which symbolises the antagonist. 

Weakness:Samaras weakness in her design is that she could use a brighter red so that it contrasts more with the black background as the light and dark colours complement each other. Additionally, she used an unconventional font 'Birch Std'. This is not very sharp and does not symbolise the unstable mind of the antagonist or the type of rigid/dangerous weapons the antagonist might use, thus making this unconventional and not engaging towards the audience. 

Group member 3 - Layla

Strengths: The strengths of Layla's design ideas are that it is conventional to the thriller genre, this is because the title implements the colour red, which connotes death and blood as well as anger. Also the white contrasts with the black symbolising the victim (white writing) and the antagonist (black background) showing how the antagonist is bigger, stronger and has more power over the innocent victim leaving her defenceless.

Weakness: The weakness of Layla's design is that the font colour that she has chosen isn't very conventional to the thriller genre, she should change her colour to bright red so it stands out against the black background. This will also make the main title stand out against the others.

To conclude, the design that the group and I will work on will be based off my own, this is because we will use my slender font, however incorporate Samara's white glow and Layla's red shadow effect. We think that this will work best because all of our ideas are implemented to create the most conventional, appealing title which grabs the audiences attention while they watch our opening sequence. We have decided to put the Production company first then following on with the director, actors, title of film and lastly the production crew e.g; camera crew, writers, producer etc. We have decided to put it in this order because the audience will be more engaged if they were to see more well known names and production companies first rather than the unknown names such as the camera crew.

Production company - Peach Tree Productions
Director - Layla
Actors - Leo, Rhiannon 
Title of film - The Clown
Casting - Fred
Music - Charles
Costumes - Sarah
Editors - Leo, Layla and Samara
Camera operator - Samara
Co-producer - Leo
Producer - Samara
Writers - Leo, Layla and Samara