RESEARCH - Conclusions about titles used in title sequences

Titles used in title sequences are really important for a film, because the audience gets familiar with the cast and the crew who helped creating this piece of art. Titles sequences can be 3 types:

- Narrative title sequences, which are integrated into the moving images and begin when the film also begins. This may be as a long establishing shot or like series of establishing shots.



- Discrete title sequences, which are integrated into moving images on blank screen. They tell the genre and the tone but they don't make the storyline really clear.



- Stylized title sequences, which can be either narrative or secrete. The moving images AND titles are highly stylized with filters, motion, animation, effects etc.

Here is an example of the order of the titles and the lengths of the credits in the title sequence of the film "Flubber":

00:05 - Walt Disney 00:23 - Great Oaks
00:31 - Walt Disney presents
00:43 - Great Oaks production
00:53 - Robin Williams
01:05 - Flubber
01:10 - A film by Les Mayfield
01:13 - Marcia Gay Harden
01:18 - Christopher McDonald
01:22 - Raymond J. Barry
01:27 - Clancy Brown
01:33 - Ted Levine
01:37 - Wil Wheaton, Scott Michael Campbell,
Edie McClurg
01:50 - Casting By Nancy Foy
01:54 - Co-producer Michael Polaire
02:05 - The Flubber Mambo by Danny Elfman
02:10 - Music by Danny Elfman
02:15 - Costume designer April Ferry
02:20 - Visual effects supervisors Peter Crosman, Tom Bertino, Dounglas Hans Smith
02:26 - Film editors Harvey Rosenstock A.C.E., A.Stevenson A.C.E.
02:31 - Production designer Andrew (Mc)Alpine
02:37 - Director of Photography Dean Cundey
03:07 - Executive producer David Nick'Say
03:16 - Produced by John Hughes and Ricardo Mestres
03:27 - Screenplay by John Hughes and Bill Walsh
03:36 - Directed by Les Mayfield

In Flubber, the credits are shown in a different order than the rest films that I've looked at. It starts with the Distribution company and production company, followed by the actor Robin Williams even before the film title. This has been used because the audience knows the actor and they immediately want to watch the film, only because of the main character in it. They know the film is going to be good and not a waste of their time. At the end come the directors, producers and the rest of the crew for creating the film, probably because they don't want the focus on themselves but on the film only.