Credits

Style is key in the credits for the opening of thrillers in the opening credits that I looked at "watchmen" all of the credits are written in the same font. The font that is used is the same as that of what is used in a comic book. So this links the credits to that of the thrillers sub-genre of a comic book genre. This also shows to the audience that it's a superhero movie.

The credits in this opening are super imposed over scenes and pictures this is key because the credits for the actors introduce who plays who to give the audience previous knowledge before the film starts. Also because its super imposed the credits can show a very brief overview of the storyline and what each characters does.

The ordering and timing in "watchmen" starts off with the production companies first. the main production company is up for three seconds then one of the smaller companies involved gets two seconds. Then up next comes the producers and directors names who also get around 2/3 seconds each. Following this is the title of the film for 4.5 seconds, this being longer then any of the other credits, shows that this is the most important thing they wanted to get across in the credits. Then finally is the actors and they order it by doing just single actors per shot, this shows what actor plays what character with each actor being on screen for around 3 seconds.

The main characters are the only people in the credits. This is to establish that these are the lead roles in the film, and not to over complicate the opening they only put in a phew characters.