Film Openings - The Shining (Titles) // Research

At the start the Warner Bros. Pictures ident appears for about 8 seconds. The titles (in this case credits) don't follow on from this until the point 1:18 where the words 'A Stanley Kubrick Film' scroll up across the middle of the screen. Other information that is shown in the titles include actors/actresses from the film, as well as what the film is called.

The writing is quite a bright, vibrant, light blue colour and is all in capital letters. The font looks quite old fashioned and fairly standard (probably because the film is over 30 years old and there wasn't the range of fonts we have today).

Each part of the titles scroll up in the middle of the screen one after the other and take about 5 seconds to scroll from the bottom of the screen up to past the top of the screen. In the background when they appear there are long shots of various parts of a location being shown and some shots following the car that appears in the opening.

The titles begin to appear when the sound is already playing so the sound playing when the titles appear is the incidental music that can be heard throughout.

'The Shining' - an example of one of the titles shown