Research on Titles

The titles of a film often define it's genre and set the mood for what's to follow. As such, the titles of a film are important, and it's vital that they're done well.

On The Art Of The Title Sequence, the opening sequences of many feature length films are on the site, along with still frames and commentary. It's a good place to get good examples of how a title sequence is done normally.

Another site I've found is Watch The Titles, which, similarly to the site mentioned above, contains title and credit sequences of films, along with video commentary and other such clips. Although for the most part they seem to be from small, unknown films, some of the sequences they have are from feature films. All of the titles they have seem to be from feature films.

From looking on Youtube, I have noticed that the majority of short films, indeed all of the shorts that I have watched, tend to have very minimal title sequences, mainly simply the name of the person who made it and the film's name. As such, this is the angle we have taken with Invaded. Invaded starts with a couple of statistics about rape, followed by the production company name and the name of the film. The whole thing lasts no longer than 15 seconds, although that in itself makes Invaded's title sequence longer than the majority of the films I have seen.