Opening sequence - Mean Girls

The Mean Girls  opening tittles are shown for a rather long time. They are combined in with the beginning of the film for example some are shown in the corners of the picture. This makes the tittle sequence less boring for the audience to watch as there is more going on than just writing on the screen. Before the actual film starts it says who the production company. Even before the title of the film is has the main actors name ‘Lindsay Lohan’ which is laid out on a black screen in bold writing.  The sequence keeps the black screen while showing the tittle of the film ‘Mean Girls’ written across it which is emphasised because of the black background.

The opening titles for this film aren’t boring at all because after the title has been shown it goes straight into the story. She is telling the audience her story with the use of old videos and pictures. We then understand what is happening in the film and what it’s about. It tells us round about how old she is now and what she’s been doing and how she has ended up where she is. The film then carries on but after a while the important actors/actresses names start appearing at the bottom of the screen. Their names are shown in bold colours but are not very big on the screen. It then stops with the titles for a while and then does what every other film does with the co-producers etc.  

We can see from just the opening sequence that she is the ‘new girl’. She’s not very popular and not very many people want to be her friend. She’s not very welcome at this new school and because we know she’s been home schooled we wonder if she will ever fit in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVT2YKP_bG4

 Below is a table of the order that the tittles come in.

Paramount
Paramount pictures presents
Lome Michaels Production
Lindsy Lohan	Black Background
Mean Girls	Black Background
List of actors/actresses	Small break of watching the film before these are shown
Co-Producers	Another break between actors/actresses before the rest of tittles are shown.
Costume Designer
Editor
Production Desinger
Photograpghy
Executive Producer
Screen Play
Director