This document provides guidance to students on including credits in a film opening sequence for a media studies assignment. It discusses the purpose of credits in films and TV, and common types of credits seen in opening sequences. Students are instructed to watch examples of opening sequences to identify commonly used credits. They are then asked to storyboard their own credit timeline by planning where different credits will appear. Peer feedback is utilized before students post their timelines online and work on implementing credits into their opening sequence designs. The goal is to help students understand the role of credits and effectively incorporate them in their own opening title designs.

1. AS Media Studies
G321: Foundation Portfolio
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2. Starter
• What is the purpose of Credits in a Film
Opening?
• Think carefully about justifying your answer!
• BE PREPARED TO SHARE!

3. Discover
Discovery Question
• What are FILM CREDITS and WHY
are they vital to your own
sequence?
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Term ?, Lesson ?
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4. Learning Objective/ Outcome
Level
All: Will research similar products
Level 2
Most: Will explain the uses of credits on their blogs
Level 3
Some: Will analyse the timelines of two different films and
comment on their effectiveness
Level 4
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5. Discover
Film Credits
• Credits are used in film and TV and acknowledge the work
of the institution, cast and crew on a product
• Opening credits are shown at the very beginning and list
the most important members of the production.
• They are now usually shown as text superimposed on a
blank screen or static pictures, or sometimes on top of
action in the show.
• There may or may not be accompanying music. Where
opening credits are built into a separate sequence of their
own, the correct term is title sequence

6. Discover
Film Credits
• Your Film Opening requires you to include
credits in some way or another
• The most successful AS openings use a wide
range of credits and styles to create their
opening credits

7. Develop
Task 1
• Watch the following openings
• Can you identify which Credits are most commonly used in
an Opening Sequence?
• http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/captain-america-thefirst-avenger/
• http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/domino/
• http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/napoleon-dynamite/

8. Discover
Film Opening Credits
Common Credits in a Film Opening
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NAME OF THE STUDIO
NAME OF THE PRODUCTION
COMPANY
A (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION
A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME)
STARRING
FILM'S TITLE
FEATURING
CASTING or CASTING BY
MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or
ORIGINAL SCORE BY
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PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION
DESIGNER
EDITOR or EDITED BY
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
PRODUCER or PRODUCED BY, EXECUTIVE
PRODUCER
STORY or STORY BY
BASED ON THE BOOK (PLAY, GRAPHIC
NOVEL etc.) BY
BASED ON THE CHARACTERS BY or BASED
ON THE CHARACTERS CREATED BY
WRITER(S) or WRITTEN BY
DIRECTOR or DIRECTED BY

9. Develop
Credit Timeline
• One way to ensure you get all your opening
credits into your sequence is to create a
CREDIT TIMELINE
• This allows you to plan roughly where and
when your Credits will appear

11. Develop
Task 2
• Individually you need to create your own
CREDIT TIMELINE
• You need to create a timeline for a sequence
of your choice
A PHOTO NEEDS TO GO ON YOUR BLOG AS
EVIDENCE

12. Develop
Test Yourself
• Swap sheets with a partner
• Read their ideas carefully
• Do you understand their ideas?
• Have they justified their choices with evidence?
• Give them feedback on your post it note
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Term ?, Lesson ?
12

13. Discover
Film Opening Credits
• Once you have your timeline you need to consider
HOW to place your credits into your sequence
• Are they going to be overlaid like this:
• Cabin In The Woods
• Are they going to interact with the action like this: Easy
A
• Are they going to be made using the films props like
this: Delicatesen

14. Film Opening Credits
• Watch these Examples from Other AS students
• Which do you think is most effective?

15. Develop
Homework
• Complete your credit timeline & post to
your blog
• Due: TUESDAY 3/12/2013
11/11/2013
Autumn 2, Lesson 3
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16. Celebrate
Plenary
• Can you write out how to create a Credits
Timeline as Instructions so another class could
do the same thing
• Think carefully about WHICH steps you need
and HOW you describe each step
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Term ?, Lesson ?
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