Assignment 10: Film Billing

By Laura Cuk

Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Thriller

An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets

Coraline Opening Details

Style & Purpose of opening

Length of opening

Type of font

Colour of font

Animation of text

Placement of text

Style: 2:24 Multiple fonts: Bold, Roman.

Multiple: Burgundy, Black, dark Yellow, White.

Like someone is sowing.

All over the screen in various corners of the screen.

Purpose: Basic length of opening Doesn’t make the viewer bored.

To make it match the gloomy and dark theme of the sequence.

Looks more creative instead of using the usual font.

SCREEN GRABS FROM FILM:Credits…

Credit 1

Time: 2 seconds into the opening sequence.

Possessory

Distributing company

The distribution company has the first credit because they are the company that invested money in the film and have the ownership.

Credit 2

Time: 7 seconds into the film

Possessory

Production company

Production company have the second credit because they have a large role because they produced the film.

Credit 3

Time: 12 seconds into the film

Possessory

Association company

Credit 4 TITLE

Time: 18 seconds into the film

Title of the film

The title of the film has a big font. The animation of text looks unusual and creative, this makes the title stand out.

The animation of text also creates an enigma because the viewer would not know why there is a button used in place of a ‘O’.

Credit 5: MAIN CHARACTER

Time: 22 seconds into the film

Cast

Main actor gets the top billing

Credits 6,7,8

Credit 6 Credit 7 Credit 8

Time: 26 seconds

Cast

Main actor 2

Time: 30 seconds

Cast

Supporting actor 3

Time: 34 seconds

Cast

Supporting actor 4

Credits 9,10

Credit 9 Credit 10

Time: 38 seconds

Cast

Supporting actor 5,6,7

Time: 41 seconds

Cast

Supporting actor 8

Credit 11 and 12

Credit 11 Credit 12

Time: 50 seconds

Crew

Lead animators

Time: 1:00

Crew

Concept artist

Credits 13,14,15

Credit 13 Credit 14 Credit 15

Time:1:04

Crew

Art directors

Time: 1:09

Crew

Storyboard supervisor

Time: 1:21

Crew

Editors

Credits 16,17,18

Credit 16 Credit 17 Credit 18

Time: 1:34

Crew

Music

Time: 1:45

Crew

Supervising animator

Time: 1:55

Crew

Director of photography

Credits 19,20

Credit 19 Credit 20

Time: 2:00

Crew

Producers

Time: 2:10

Crew

Producers

Credit 21 Credit 22

Time: 2:14

Novel that the film is based on

Time: 2:20

Writer and Director