Research: Credit Order 2

This is the opening credits of 2010, $80 million film Shutter Island. It is interesting to analyse these credits also, as like ours it is a thriller. However, it is on a completely different scale to our thriller in terms of budget and concept. This would possibly lead us to think that the credits are slightly different because of this.



.A Film By Martin Scorcese

.Produced by Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer

.Screenplay By Laeta Kalogridis

.Based on the novel by Dennis Lehane

.Director of Photography: Robert Richardson

.Ben Kingsley

.Leonardo DiCaprio

.Mark Ruffalo

.Edited By Thelma Schoonmaker

.Music by Robbie Robertson

.SHUTTER ISLAND



As we can see, the makeup of this credit order is different to the one prior. Unlike with 'This is England' the order doesn't have a wave of importance. It is quite clear that it starts with the most important by mentioning world acclaimed director Martin Scorcese. The order then continues down of less importance until finally finishing with the title of the film, also unlike the British independent film where the title arises around the middle. What particularly interested me about these credits is that the writer and novelist were considered more important than the films world famous stars such as Ben Kinglsey, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo. One could only assume that this film would have a fairly large marketing campaign. This would mean that if the audience had reached the cinema to watch it, they would almost certainly already be aware that these actors are appearing. Their faces being plastered on the posters has already gone some way in selling tickets, and may even be the soul reason that some bought those tickets. This would be reinforced by the fact that the credits are relatively short and no other actors names are mentioned other than the big three, suggesting that this is a film reliant on the performances of is big names with little other supporting cast members.