Titling and Credits Ideas/Research

Before we added the titles and credits to our film we decided to watch some other Rom-Coms to get ideas on how we could put the titles in our opening. The Films we watched were:

• Notting Hill
• Love Actually
• Four Weddings and a Funeral

All of these films all include credits and titles in their openings and they have a range of similarities and differences in the way they show them.

Each of these films show the Production Companies before the opening shot which is the normality in films and this is what we had decided on doing beforehand anyway.

In Notting Hill, the name of the Actress comes on at the bottom of the screen when there is a close up of her. This allows the name and face to put together. For this film, a fancy font was used as the character is famous so for our film, we would use a simple font. In the opening of Notting Hill, there is only one actress credit and a credit on someone who worked on the film. For our opening we would want all the actors credited rather than just one. 

Four Weddings and a Funeral credits a majority of the actors and all of the main characters actors. We will do this in our film as it establishes who is in the film. Unlike Notting Hill, the actors come on screen when the character isn't on screen for a couple of times. We wouldn't do this as we would rather have the actors name up when the character that they play is on screen. 

Love actually doesn't feature an of the actors names in the opening sequence but does feature the title of the film part way through the opening. This is similar to Notting Hill where the title of the film comes up during the opening sequence whereas in Four Weddings and a Funeral, the title comes up at the beginning of the film.