Panic Room Timeline

Panic Room:

Conventions of a title sequence:

• Production company ident
• Distribution company ident
• Distribution company title
• Production company title
• Actor 1 (major star)
• Actor 2 ( major star)
• Film title
• Actor 3
• Actor 4

This is the conventional order of title sequences, a title sequence is their to grab the attention of the audience so they know who the main stars are in the film and too give the main people such as the distribution and production company credit for their involvement in the actual film. The major stars and production and distribution companies appear on the screen longer than others this is because they play a big role in the production of the film and it is promoting them as they have put a lot of money into producing the film.

The timeline of the film opening panic room:

• Production company - Columbia pictures (0.05-0.2)
• Distribution company - Columbia pictures (0.20-0.26
• Production company - Hofflund/Prolone production (0.26-0.29)
• Production company - An Indelible Picture (0.29-0.32)
• Actor 1- Jodie Foster - (0.32-0.37)
• Actor 2- Forest Whitaker - (0.37-0.40)
• Actor 3- Dwight Yoakam - (0.40-0.44)
• Actor 4-Jared Leto - (0.40-0.47) 
• Film title- Panic Room - (0.47-0.54)
• Actor 5- Kristen Stewart - (0.54- 0.58)
• Actor 6- Ann Magnus Cal - ( 0.58-1.02)

The conventions of the film opening to panic room is different to how it is normally. The film opening makes the film title appear after actor four and adds two more actors. whereas in the normal conventions the film title comes before actor three and four and after actor four it jumps straight into casting.