Research: The Importance of opening titles

Explain what opening titles are:

Opening credits are used to tell the viewers what actors are starring in the movie. They also often tell the audience who the film was written by, directed by, the producers, executive producers, film editors the distribution company and writers. Some films also go as far to put the directors of photography, sound designer, costume designer, who the music was by and the music supervisors.
Opening credits nowadays are often used a as a short into  that set the mood for the rest of the film.













Here is a few photos from the opening title of the 2015 film creed. The opening title of the film sets  a mood for the rest of the film after seeing the opening times you can tell that the film is going to be based on a boxer chasing his dream with barriers he's going to have to over come. The opening title tells the audience who the distribution company is, the title of the film, directors, producers, executive producers, director of photography, production designer, editors, songs by, music supervisor, visual effects supervisor, costume designer, production company, casting by and the main actors of the movie.

In the opening titles of every film, the distribution company will be shown first as they're the company that get the film into cinemas and on DVD's in stores. Next shown will be the production company. This is the company that fund the money for the film to be made. They also employ a team to make the film such as the producers, directors and more. Then from then on wards the opening title will list the biggest actors in the movie to attract more viewers and then the most important members of the team employed by the production company are listed such as the directors, producers, sound managers etc.