Research -Title Sequences: Research into Institution (Blog Task 8)

Title Sequences: Research into Institution

Film: Beautiful Thing

Credits in the order we see them:

1.   Production company ‘channel four films’
2.  Production company 2 ‘a world production’
3. Cast
4.  Title
5. Cast members
6. Written by
7. Producers
8. Director

Film: Mean Girls

Credits in the order we see them:

1.     Ident ‘Paramount’

2.     ‘Paramount’ Title

3.     Producer

4.     Main cast 

5.     Title

6.     Cast

7.     Casting by

8.     Based on book

9.     Music supervisor

10. Music composed and conducted by

11. Co-producer

12. Costume designer 

13. Editor

14. Production designer

15. Director of photography

16. Executive Producer

17. Producer

18. Screenplay by

19. Director

Film: My Brother The Devil

Credits in the order we see them:

1. Ident
2.  Film company
3. Ident
4. Title of film company
5. In association with…
6. Cast
7. Executive producer
8. Producers
9. Written and Directed By
10. Title

Budgets

Beautiful Thing  

Film Budget: ?

Box Office Figures: $33,931 (Opening weekend in USA)

Type of Release:

Mean Girls

Film Budget: $17 million

Box Office Figures: $129,042,871 worldwide

Type of Release: Wide

My Brother The Devil  

Film Budget: low budget

Box Office Figures: $10,305 (Opening weekend in USA)

Type of Release:

Mainstream or Independent

Beautiful Thing – Independent

Mean Girls  - Mainstream

My Brother The Devil – Independent

Comparison

The differences that we see between mainstream title sequences and independent title sequences, is that mainstream title sequences have longer title sequences as they have more credits. This is because mainstream films have a larger budget therefore they can hire a larger crew to producer a film leading to more credits.