Title Sequence

We challenged the titles you would find in normal films and played our titles whilst the film was in motion. This is very uncommon in short films and you would normally find this in a television programme. Many things were happening during the title sequence. Instead of reading the titles at the beginning of the film we instead placed the phone messages Alex sent to Melissa over the top of the beginning scene which is of Alex sitting around his house waiting for Melissa to get in contact with him. We decided that this would be effective as it is unusual not to have credits at the beginning of the film, so the phone messages would stand out more for the audience. Also, we do not have any type of music in the titles as we believe that the simpler it is the better it is for the message of our short film to be exposed to the audience.  The only text we have at the beginning is the name of our film, in which we decided it should be called; ‘The Last Message’. I believe this name is very suitable for our film.  
For the end credits we used a common black background and white font for a simplistic look. Our credits include; the director, the cast member, screenplay, etc.
Overall, I strongly feel that the decisions we made for the titles to challenge normal short films was definitely for the best as it is very simple and is very effective in getting the message across to the audience.