For our titles/credits to be successful we want them to at least broadly follow the conventions of horror film openings as it will make our opening seem more professional and realistic.
I stumbled across the film Dolls when looking at various title sequences for movies. Dolls is a 1987 horror film set in the English countryside where some people stop by a mansion during a storm and find haunted dolls in the house. This has some aspects similar to our storyline (the English countryside, the doll in the house) so I realised the typography and what it says is likely to be similar or follow a similar structure.
It starts with 'Empire Pictures Presents' which fades in and out of the screen. This is pretty similar to ours and from looking at other horror openings I can see quite a few films go for this as a starting point.
It then goes on to show the production company (or in this case who produced it) which ours also does.
After this the main title is shown. By looking at other horror movie openings I have found that some do this where the opening is simply a lot of credits, while others that have action/characters in their opening tend to put the title of the film at the end like we do.
This opening then goes into more detail (e.g who stars in the film, who does the doll effects, etc.) Ours shows two people who star in it by just writing their names but does not go into anymore detail. I think this suits our opening and follows the conventions for openings with action in because as I said before the emphasis is on the action and not the titles so much.
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