Research on titles - sherlock holmes

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The titles for sherlock holmes are done coming up in a  font that is in the style of old fashioned hand writing. whenever there is a specific title the image freezed and the writing comes up as the frozen image turns into an old fashion style of a drawing. I really like this use of title as it flows very smoothly and doesnt go on for too long. However i dont think this style of title would work well for a modern romcom as it looks very old fashioned and serious and creates more of an adventure atmosphere other than a light hearted one that we would want. Also these titles do not come straight away into the film there are a few scenes that are not too long first to set the scene of the film and gain audience attention.

The titles start of with introducing people who went into making the film such as producers/director/editor etc. it isnt until 1 minute  into the titles that the main actor is introduced. The title of the film them appears at 1.5 which is followed by the co actors names. The reasoning for having the main actors name first would have been for publicity for the actor.

 The sequence and look of the titles works well for this style of mystery/detective type film as it all gives a very busy, fast paced impression which fits with the genre.

 The reason i chose to look at Sherlock holmes for titles is because the film is targeted for a slightly younger age and we are targeting our film for a younger age.

Sherlock Holmes titles -
T1- Directed by Guy Ritchie
T2- Screenplay by Michael Robert Johnson  and Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg
T3- Screen story Lionel Wingram and Michael Robert Johnson
T4-Produced by Joel silver Lione Wingram Susen Donney  Dan Lin
T5 Sherlcok holmes and Dr Watson was created by the late Arthur conan Doyle  and appears in stories and novels by him
T6- Exuctive Producers  Michael Tadross and Bruce Berman
T7- co prducer  Steve Clark-Hall
T8- director of photography - Phillippee Rouselot
T9- production designer Sarah Greenwood
T10-Editor- James herbert
T11- Robert Downey Jr
T12- Sherlock Holmes
T13- Jude Law
T14- Rachel McAdams
T15- Mark Strong
T16- Eddie Mason
T17 - Kelly  Keilly
T18- James Fox ,Hans metheson , Geraldine James
T19- casting by reg Poerscout Egerton
T20- music  by Hans zimmer
T21- music produced by Hans zimmer  and Lane Balfel
T22- Costume design  jenny bearon
T23- visual effect supervisor  Chas Jarret
T24- A warner bros. pictures presentation
T25- in association with  village roadshow pictures
T26- A silver pictures production
T27 - A wingram production
T28- A Guy ritchie film

 A film as high budget as Sherlock Holmes has many people who need to be credited in the titles. It has 28 different titles  within  3 minutes ours as a low budget independant film will only have approximatly 10 titles.