Ordering Movie Titles

Despite the hype surrounding any new movie that claims to be a directors’ ‘greatest work’ or an actors ‘award winning’ performance, the reality is that the audience would much rather watch a movie than read about it’s creators. To this end producing a sequence of titles or credits that remain of a significant interest (to anyone other than to those listed) is still a challenge to any film make.

In fact some of the greatest movies have no opening credits at all for example The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. The film Citizen Kane only has the name of the movie at the beginning, saving all the credits for the end.

‘Contractual issues’ and ‘actor egos’ account for much of the final order in which titles appear but there seems to be a general running order as follows:

I made this title sequence using Windows Movie Maker
There is sound so TURN ON YOUR SPEAKERS