Panic Room credits

Today we looked at the conventional structure of opening credits using Panic Room (Fincher, 2002). As you can see there is a definite order (begining with institutions and ending with director) that we can use for our opening.

The first names that we see are names of production companies and studio. The are extremely important in the process fo creating a film or any type of media to be honest. This means that the credits start off with the most important things first since the audience is more likely to care about it.

Production Companies

• Columbia Pictures
• HOFFLUND/POLONE
• INDELIBLE

Right after the production companies, we come to the stars of the movie who are obviously very important, but even more important in the eye of the public because without them there wouldn't be a movie right? 

Main Cast

• Jodie Foster
• Forest Whitaker
• Dwight Yoakam
• Jared Leto

Then we see the title card, which is also very important. This is also a signal that after this the importnace of the name will decrease.

TITLE

And as we see here, we are seeing the names of the less important cast members

Supporting Cast

• Kristen Stewart
• Ann Magnuson
• Ian Buchanan
• Patrick Bauchau
• Paul Schulze

Right after that the staff members that no one will remember the name of. However, we started with the unknown members of staff, but it gradually gets more and more important from directort of cinematography to producer to writer and then the most important staff member which is even more important than the actors, the director.

Staff

• Laray Mayfield - casting
• Michael Kaplan - costume designer
• Howard Shore - music
• James Haygood - editor
• Angus Wall - editor
• Arthur Max - production designer
• Conrad W. Hall - director of cinematography
• Darius Khondji - director of cinematography
• Gavin Polone - producer
• Judy Hofflund - producer
• David Koepp - producer
• Cean Chaffin - producer
• David Koepp - writer
• David Fincher - director