Opening Titles Research

This blog post contains the timing of opening titles used for various films, in order to see the order in how casting is listed as well as other factors such as when the main title is introduced. This research will be used to help develop our film opening later on.

Black text- Titles
Orange text- Action
Blue text- Music/sound

Forrest Gump



Title 1- 0:00 Paramount Pictures Logo
0:10 Feather in sky
T2- 0:13 Paramount Pictures presents
T3- 0:17 A Steve Tisch/Wendy Finerman Production
0:17 Church spire
0:20 Music starts
T4- 0:21 A Robert Zemeckis Film
T5- 0:27 Tom Hanks in
MAIN TITLE 0:32 Forrest Gump
T6- 0:37 Robin Wright
T7- 0:42 Gary Sinise
T8- 0:47 Mykelti Williamson
T9- 0:52 and Sally Field
T10- 0:57 Casting by Ellen Lewis
T11- 1:03 Co-producer Charles Newirth
T12- 1:07 Executive music producer Joel Sill
T13- 1:11 Visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston
T14- 1:17 Costumes designed by Joanna Johnston
T15- 1:22 Music by Alan Silvestri
T16- 1:27 Edited by Arthur Schmidt
T17- 1:32 Production designer Rick Carter
T18- 1:38 Director photography Dan Burgess
T19- 1:42 Based on the novel by Winston Groom
T20- 1:46 Screenplay by Eric Roth
T21- 1:51 Produced by Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starky
1:57 Feather lands below main character
2:37 Music ends

Juno



0:00 Juno drinks from carton
0:02 Music starts
0:05 Juno starts walking
0:13 Animation starts
Title 1- 0:15 Fox Searchlight Pictures presents
T2- 0:19 A Mandate Pictures Mr. Mudd Production
T3- 0:27 A Jason Reitman Film
MAIN TITLE 0:28 JunoT4- 0:38 Ellen Page
T5- 0:42 Michael Cera
T6- 0:49 Jennifer Garner
T7- 0:56 Jason Bateman
T8- 1:00 Allison Janney
T9- 1:05 JK Simmons
T10- 1:11 Olivia Thirlby
T11- 1:17 Casting by Mindy Marin and Kara Lipson
T12- 1:20 Costume designer Monique Prudhomme
T13- 1:27 Music by Mateo Meessina
T14- 1:27 Songs by Kimya Dawson
T15- 1:32 Music supervisors Peter Afterman and Margaret Yen
T16- 1:37 Co-producers Jin Miller, Kelli Konop, Brad van Arragon
T17- 1:42 Film editor Dana T Glauberman
T18- 1:48 Production director Steve Saklad
T19- 1:53 Director of photography Eric Steelberg
T20- 1:157 Executive producers Joe Drake, Nathan Kahane, Daniel Dubiecki
T21- 2:04 Produced by Liame Halfon, John Malkovich, Mason Novick, Russell Smith
T22- :09 Written by Diablo Cody
T23- 2:17 Directed by Jason Reitman
2:25 Music Ends
2:25 Movie fades back in

Lemony Snickett's: A Series of Unfortunate Events

This film opening is slightly different to the others, particularly as the opening shown is more of a fake film opening within the film- titles are used but none of which that list cast members or actors and only the production companies. The film's actual title is never shown but credits at the end of the film list all of the film's cast.

Title 1- 0:10 Dreamworks Logo
T2- 0:36 Paramount logo
0:38 Music starts
T3- 0:49 Nickelodeon Movies logo
1:00 Animation starts
T4- 1:00 Dreamwork Pictures
T5- 1:12 and Paramount Pictures
T6- 1:18 Present
1:26- The Littlest Elf (Fake main title)
1:47- Animation freezes, actual film starts
1:47- Music stops, narration starts