Thriller Title Timelines

After deciding on the genre for our film opening, it was important to revisit title timelines we had previously completed so as to see whether thrillers had a different order or method of displaying titles to other genres. To ensure we were not solely basing our evidence off one film, we looked at four thriller title sequences, much the same as before, this time paying even closer attention to the presentation of the titles as well as just the order and duration. The titles in Gone Girl are extremely discreet and do not obstruct the scene in any way. This juxtaposes with the Se7en titles as the majority are shown separate from the scene and are animated. The titles for Da Vinci code are a lot shorter than the others as it's mainly about setting up the mystery of the plot using the animations. The titles for Dark Knight Rises on the other hand are integrated into the scene and are important as what the scene is setting up introducing the cast and mood the film is set around. This shows that the titles used for thrillers vary greatly and therefore we are able to create titles which best suit our narrative, rather than the genre itself.

We aim to use this theory when creating our own titles by having each title last for roughly 3 seconds and being in the order which best suits our opening. We know that the most important titles for us to include is the actors, producer/s, editors and director/s.

By Olivia Calver and Samuel Skinner

The Da Vinci Code Titles Timeline

Time	Title No.	Title
00:00 - 00:22	1	Columbia Picures Pressents
00:26 - 00:30	2	In Assocation With Imagine Entertainment
00:44 - 00:47	3	Starring Tom Hanks
00:56 - 00:59	4	Sir Ian Mckellen / Audrey Tautau
01:03 - 01:07	5	Paul Benttany / Jean Keno
01:09 - 01:11	6	Visual Effects by Ooable Negative
01:21 - 01:27	7	Produced and Directed By Ron Howard
01:29 - 01:34	8	Based on the Novel By Oan Brown
01:40 - 01:43	9	The Da Vinci Code (Main Title)

The Dark Knight Rises Title Timeline
 

Time	Title No.	Title
00:00 - 00:14	1	Warner Bros institional logo
00:15 - 00:27	2	Legendary Pictures institional logo
00:29 - 00:41	3	DC Comics Instition logo
00:41 - 00:43	4	Syncopy
00:43 - 00:46	5	A Warner Bros Picture Presents
00:46 - 00:49	6	In Assotiation with Ledgendary Pictures
00:50 - 00:52	7	A DC Comic Production
00:53 - 00:54	8	A Syncopy Production
00:56 - 00:59	9	A Film By Christopher Nolan
01:06 - 01:08	10	The Dark Knight Rises (main title)
01:09 - 01:11	11	Christian Bale
01:13 - 01:14	12	Micheal Craine
01:16 - 01:17	13	Garry Oldman
01:19 - 01:20	14	Anne Hatheway
01:22 - 01:24	15	Tom Hardy
01:25 - 01:27	16	Joseph Gordon - Levitt
01:29 - 01:30	17	Marion Cotilard
01:33 - 01:34	18	Morgan Treeman
01:53 - 01:54	19	Based upon Batman charters By Bob Kane
01:56- 01:57	20	Screenplay By Jonathen Nolan / Christopher Nolan
01:59 - 02:00	21	Story By Christopher Nolan / David S.Goyer
02:02 - 02:04	22	Executive producer Benjimin Melniker / Micheal E.Uslan / Thomas Tull
02:19 - 02:21	23	Dirrected By Christopher Nolan

Gone Girl Titles Timeline

	Time	Title No.	Title	Duration
Background Music Starts – 0:00 Background Music Ends – 1:45	0:03	1	Columbia Pictures And Metro Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Present	1 sec
	0:10	2	A David Fincher Film	1 sec
	0:22	3	Ben Affleck	3 secs
	0:31	4	Rosamund Pike	3 secs
	0:36	5	New Regency Pictures And Pacific Standard	4 secs
	0:42	6	Courtney Martin	2 secs
	0:48	7	Kelsey Wickre	2 secs
	0:51	8	Featuring Carrie Coon Emily Ratjkowski Neil Patrick Harris Tyler Perry	3 secs
	0:59	9	Music By Morgan Pfiffner	3 secs
	1:13	10	Produced By Leslie Dixon Bruna Papandrea Reese Witherspoon	4 secs
	1:22	11	Cinematography By Jeff Cronenweth	3 secs
	1:33	12	Based On A Novel By Gillian Flynn	2 secs
	1:43	13	GONE GIRL	2 secs

Se7en Titles Timeline

	Time	Title No.	Title	Duration
Background Music Starts – 0:00 Background Music Ends – 2:10	0:03	1	New Line Cinema Presents	2 secs
	0:06	2	An Arnold Kopelson Production	2 secs
	0:10	3	A Film By David Fincher	1 sec
	0:13	4	Brad Pitt	2 secs
	0:18	5	Morgan Freeman	2 secs
	0:24	6	Se7en	4 secs
	0:29	7	Gwyneth Paltrow	2 secs
	0:33	8	Richard Roundtree	2 secs
	0:38	9	R. Lee Ermy	1 sec
	0:41	10	John C. McGinley	2 secs
	0:46	11	Julie Araskog     Mark Boon Junior	2 secs
	0:53	12	John Cassini Reginald E. Cathy      Peter Crombie	3 secs
	0:56	13	Hawthorne James     Michael Massee Leland Orser	3 secs
	1:03	14	Richard Portnow Richard Schiff     Pamala Tyson	3 secs
	1:10	15	Casting By Billy Hopkins, Suzanne Smith Kerry Borden	3 secs
	1:16	16	Music By Howard Shore	2 secs
	1:21	17	Costumes Designed By Michael Kaplan	2 secs
	1:24	18	Edited By Richard Francis-Bruce	1 sec
	1:26	19	Production Designed By Arthur Max	2 secs
	1:34	20	Director of Photography Darius Khondji	2 secs
	1:39	21	Co-Producers Stephen Brown Nana Greenwald     Sanford Panitch	2 secs
	1:43	22	Co-Executive Producers Lynn Harris     Richard Saperstein	3 secs
	1:49	23	Executive Producers Gianni Nunnari    Dan Kolsrud     Anne Kopelsum	3 secs
	1:52	24	Andrew Kevin Walker Written By	2 secs
	1:58	25	Produced By Arnold Kopelson   Phyllis Carlyle	2 secs
	2:03	26	Directed By David Fincher	3 secs