Order of opening Credits

While there are numerous variations most opening credits use some variation of the basic order noted within:

• (NAME OF THE STUDIO)

• (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY)

• (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME)

• STARRING

• (FILM'S TITLE)

• FEATURING

Featured actors.

• CASTING or CASTING BY

MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE 

• PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER
• SET DESIGN
• COSTUMES or COSTUMES BY or GOWNS (older movies)
• HAIRDRESSER
• MAKE-UP ARTIST
• SOUND RECORDING (older movies)
• VISUAL EFFECTS DIRECTOR or VISUAL EFFECTS BY

• EDITOR or EDITED BY

• DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

• PRODUCER or PRODUCED BY, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

• BASED ON THE BOOK (PLAY, GRAPHIC NOVEL etc.) BY or FROM A PLAY/BOOK BY (older movies)

• BASED ON THE CHARACTERS BY or BASED ON THE CHARACTERS CREATED BY

• STORY or STORY BY

• WRITER(S) or WRITTEN BY

• DIRECTOR or DIRECTED BY

This is an example of how a film opening sequence may be set out and I will certainly add certain aspects of this set out to my own opening sequence plan which i have posted already and will repost the finished plan very soon.