Film Opening Titles

Film Opening Titles

Looking at 3 different movies it is clearer to me now how titles are presented within different type of films.
We started with the film titled 'Begin Again'. At the very beginning of the film as like the majority of all films the ident's were presented, there were 4 ident's in this certain film. After that the audience were presented with a black screen, here the titles of the production companies dissolved in and out in white writing- the white writing allowing the information to stand out as it is a contrast to the background. The film begins, after 3 minuets into the opening scene the titles of the 2 main starts are presented to start off the sequence of credit titles. The titles of the main stars are normally presented at the beginning of the title sequence because it tends to go in order of payment, the highest paid going first. 4 minuets into the film the title was finally shown, however it was still in the same font and size as the titles this shows that for that production company, the title of the film isn't massively important, in fact it is the storyline/ narrative which is more important. Finally 6 minuets into the films the last title is shown. Despite being the sequence being put in highest payment the writer and director was placed last to conclude the sequence because it was central unlike the others it shows it's importance and status to the film production.  From this film it is clear that not all the titles if any will be shown within my 2 minuet opening as a small scene is sown first to settle the audience into the film.
The second film we looked at was called 'The Talented Mr Ripley' this film genre is a thriller therefore it is similar for something which will be created in the near future. Like the previous film discussed the film started with indents however in this film there are only 2. Again the black background and white writing is used to show the credit's, this technique is seeming to be quite popular. The back background slowly lose stripes which revealed the first image at 1 minuet 30 seconds. The other titles where then continued by colour stripes which would appear either across or long the main shot. The order of titles was again celebrities first however the director where before the celebrities in this case. From this film I can see titles can be added at the very start of the film however the title of the film was shown at the end therefore the titles were more important than the actual film name itself.
The final film we looked at was the famous 'The Hunger Games'. The titles of this film were no existence. First there were 2 indent's which weren't followed by titles but a brief narrative of the storyline in which the words 'The Hunger Games' were shown and the other words around it dissolved showing the title of the film. The actual footage of the film then became, after 10 minuets in there still were no sign of titles at all. Therefore when creating my opening of a film I don't actually have to include the titles at all, in fact I could argue that I would have all the titles as credits at the end of the film. The way the titles aren't shown allows the audience to get engrossed with the film straight away within the titles wasting time as not everyone like to read the titles and prefer to get straight into the storyline. This technique is becoming more common in today's modern films therefore this is something to consider when creating my film.
I'm still yet to decide what my film will be about however when creating a storyboard I will need to think about weather I want titles to be present and which ones or weather or not to even include these. I think however without going into to much depth some titles will be shown as it'll allow the audience to see the celebrities/ cast members and the most important members of the production company.