Credits

We are now making decisions about how we are going to show the closing and opening credits of our film. Here are a few of the ideas we thought about for the closing credits:

• Short clips of each actor, freeze on their face and then their names come up. We liked this idea because it is often used at the end of comedy films which would fit well with the 'reveal' at the end of our film
• Simple, scrolling text from top to bottom of screen. This is one of the most traditional ways that credits are made, however we thought that it may be a bit boring. Short films are generally quirky and exciting right to the end of films, even the credits so we decided against this idea.
• Scrolling credits across the start of the film. In our thriller last year we had our credits over the start of the film instead of at the end. Again, we decided against this idea as we believed it to be suited more towards a longer, mainstream film where the director wants to get the actors names shown.

We have decided on having our credits over small clips of the characters whose faces then freeze into amusing facial expressions when the credits appear. We liked this idea as it's entertaining and carries on the 'humour' of the reveal after the plot has ended. We wanted the film to be entertaining right up until the very end as usually in films you turn off at the credits. As our film is short we want our audience to watch it in its entirety.

By Colette