Conventional Order of Film Titles/Examples

Conventional Film Opening Sequence

- Production Complany (Ident)
- Distribution Company (Ident)
- Production Complany (Title)
- Distribution Company (Title)
- Actor 1 (Star)
- Actor 2 (Star)
- FILM TITLE
- Actor 3
- Actor 4




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- Casting
- Costume
- Music Supervisor
- Music by
- Edited by
- Production Designer
- Director of Photography
- Executive Producer
- Written by
- Director

This is the general order in which the Credits of a film are shown. The production Company and the Distributers are shown first as they're most important, followed by the stars of the film, before the film title.


UNKNOWN (2011)

00:06 - Warner Bros Presents (A TIMEWANER COMPANY)
00:12 - Dark Castle Entertainment
00:21 - Studio Babelsberg
00:32 - Warner Bros. Pictures PRESENTS
00:37 - IN ASSOCIATION WITH Dark Castle Entertainment
00:44 - A PANDA Production
01:25 - Liam Neeson
01:41 - Diane Kruger
02:04 - January Jones
02:13 - Aidan Quinn
02:28 - WITH Bruno Ganz
02:42 - AND Frank Lagella
02:47 - UNKNOWN
02:57 - CASTING BY Lucinda Syson
03:05 - COSTUME DESIGNER Ruth Myers
03:21 - CO-PRODUCERS Richard Mirisch
                                Adam Kuhn
                                Charlie Woebcken
                                Christoph Fisser
                                Henning Molfenter
03:29 - MUSIC BY John Ottman AND Alexander Rudd
03:36 - EDITED BY Tim Alverson
03:57 - PRODUCTION DESIGNER Richard Bridgland
04:24 - DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Flavio Labiano
04:32 - EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Susan Downey
                                           Steve Richards
                                           Sarah Mexer
                                           Peter McAleese
04:40 - PRODUCED BY Joel Silver
                               Leonard Gold Berg
                               Andrew Rona
04:50 - BASED UPON THE NOVEL BY Didier Van Cauwelaert
04:58 - SCREENPLAY BY Oliver Butcher AND Stephen Cornwell
05:07 - DIRECTED BY Jaume Collet-Serra


THINK LIKE A MAN

00:10 - Screen Gems. (A SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY)
00:25 - RAINFORST FILMS
00:32 - Screen Gems PRESENTS
00:35 - A RAINFORST FILMS PRODUCTION
00:43 - THINK LIKE A MAN
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01:55:32 - DIRECTED BY Tim Story
01:55:44 - WRITTEN BY Keith Merryman AND David A. Newman
01:55:51 - BASED UPON THE BOOK 'ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN' BY Steve Harvey
01:55:55 - PRODUCTED BY Will Packer
01:56:00 - EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Steve Harvey
                                                Rushion McDonald
                                                Rob Hardy
                                                Glenn S. Gainor
01:56:05 - DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Larry Blanford
01:56:10 - PRODUCTION DESIGNER Chris Cornwell
01:56:14 - EDITOR Peter S.Elliot
01:56:16 - Michael Ealy
01:56:19 - Jerry Ferrara
01:56:22 - Meagan Good
01:56:25 - Regina Hall
01:56:29 - Kevin Hart
01:56:32 - Taraji P.Henson
01:56:36 - Terrence J
01:56:39 - Jenifer Lewis
01:56:43 - Romany Malco
01:56:46 - Gary Owen
01:56:49 - Gabrielle Union
01:56:53 - La La Anthony
                 Chris Brown
                 Wendy Williams
01:56:57 - Sherri Shepherd
                 Caleel Harris
                 Arielle Kebbel
01:57:02 - CASTING BY Kimberly R. Hardin
01:57:06 - MUSIC BY Christopher Lennertz
01:57:09 - COSTUME DESIGNER Salvador Perez
01:57:13 - A FILM BY Tim Story


'Unknown' follows a similar pattern in which the general order in which the Credits of a film are usually portrayed, wheres 'Think Like a Man' takes a rather different and unusual approch having all that's usually placed in the beginning of the film opening, at the end. All except the Production Company, Distributors and The Title which still remain the most relevent and most important.