Best Opening Title Sequences

Opening Title Sequences for your short film, TV show or feature, should set the tone, effectively whetting the palate, preparing your viewer for what's in store. Like a movie trailer with its Hook Factor, the Opening Sequence can further draw the audience into the experience you've created. Perhaps if masterfully deployed a unique creative Opening Titles Sequence can act as foreplay for the celluloid seduction soon to follow.

We'd mentioned this important component of film editing & production in an earlier thread & showcased some wonderfully creative retoolings of top TV openings, it's time this vital film component received its own category, & what better way to start than to feature the 2013 Film Award Title Design Finalists ...

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Here's History Channel's Vikings opening sequence

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The other night HBO aired a hilarious Larry David movie called Clear History. Not only is the film highly entertaining, it has a very fresh unique take on Opening Title Sequences, the theme is continued during the closing credits. The screen appears as a computer desktop with each pulldown menu or dock icon revealing names of actors & production team. It's very clever.