Title Timelines in Drama films

Forrest Gump Title Timeline

 

0.01 Paramount

0.04 A paramount communications company

0.12 Paramount pictures presents

0.17 A Steve Tisch/ Wendy Finerman production

0.22 A Robert Zemeckis film

0.27 Tom Hanks in

0.32 Forrest Gump

0.37 Robin Wright

0.42 Gary Sinise

0.47 Mykelti Williamson

0.52 and Sally Field

0.56 casting by Ellen Lewis

1.01 Co-producer Charles Newirth

1.06 executive music producer Joel Sill

1.11 visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston

1.16 Costumes designed by Joanna Johnston

1.21 music by Alan Silvestri

1.26 Edited by Arthur Schmidt

1.31 Production Designer Rick Carter

1.37 Director of photography Don Burgess

1.42 Based on a Novel by Winston Groom

1.46 Screenplay by Eric Roth

1.50 Produced by Wendy Finerman Steve Tisch Steve Starkey

2.01 Directed by Robert Zemeckis

My Sister's Keeper Title Timeline
 

0.11 new line cinema

0.23 new line cinema presents

0.32 A Mark Johnson/ Curmudgeon/ Scott L. Goldman production

0.36 A Nick Cassavetes film

043 Cameron Diaz

0.52 Abigail Breslin

0.59 My Sisters Keeper

1.08 Alec Baldwin

1.13 Jason Patric

1.16 Sofia Vassiliera

1.22 Heather Wahlquist

1.25 and Joan Cusack

1.29 Thomas Dekker Evan Ellingson David Thornton

1.34 casting by Matthew Barry and Nancy Green-Kelly

1.38 Costume designer Shay Cunliffe

1.45 Music by Aaron Zigman

1.49Co-producers Hillary Sherman Steve Posen

1.59 Editors Alan Heim, A.S.C

2.05 Production Designer Jon Hutman

2.09 Director of photography Caleb Deschanel, A.S.C

2.12 Executive producers Diana Pokorny Stephen Furst Mendel Tropper

2.16 Executive producers Toby Emerich Merideth Finn Mark Kaufman

2.27 Based on the novel by Jodi Picoult

2.31 Produced by Mark Johnson

The font for the titles in both of these openings are quite basic, this way they don't take to much attention off of what is happening in the background. In both of the openings the text is white, this is quite simplistic also. Both of the opening's text are effective because they are clear to read.

In the Forrest Gump film opening all of the titles are in the middle of the screen, this works quite nicely because when the text appears the background colour is contrasting with the text colour so use can see it clearly. In the opening of My Sister's Keeper, the titles change. Sometimes they are in the bottom left corner and some are in the right. We want to go with the same approach that the producers of My Sister's Keeper did and alternate between the two bottom corners. This will allow us to alter the position of our text based on the background colour so that it will always be clear and easy to read.

Both of the text in Forrest Gump and My Sister's Keeper fade in and out, we are also going to use the fade transition as we feel that it flows very nicely. As the opening to our film isn't very fast paced, we don't want the text to cut straight in and out.

This task has helped us to consider exactly how we want our film titles to look. We can now specialize our titles to look industry standard as we are using these films as our template.




Charlotte.