Purpose Of Film Openings- Blog post 3

The Purpose of Film Openings

Title sequences are put at the beginning of films, due to both legal obligations but also to help the audience have further understanding of the film.
With every film that is made its title sequence must have the name of its contractor, for example 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Paramount etc. This is compulsory as it is a legal requirement, that needs to be shown before the film is even showed to an audience.

After a title sequence has completed the legal requirements, it will often show what's known as credits and then the film title. Within these credits the audience may be told the names of actors starring in the film, producers, editors, costume designers, makeup artists and many other people who were involved in the production of the film. By doing this it gives recognition or "credit" to those individuals hence the name "credits". These credits are usually shown as text over moving images and music. Such moving images and music often give the audience an idea of the type of genre of the film they are about to watch. In many cases the title sequence is a way to set the scene or introduce the storyline to the audience in order to allow the films later scenes to make more sense. Sometimes title sequences may even show a scene which will appear again later on in a film to allow the audience to gain a wider context of the film storyline.
The purpose of a title sequence is to establish the genre of the film through the use of music and moving images but also  provide an opportunity to complete compulsory legal requirements.

 

 

 

In conclusion the purpose of a film opening is to establish the genre of the film to the audience, but to also give the audience a taster of what is going to happen in the film by showing them scenes that will later appear in the film.