What are Opening Credits?

As part of our film openings, we must integrate opening credits and a title sequence, but what are they?

What are the Opening Credits?

In films, the opening credits are integrated at the beginning and illustrate the crucial individuals associated with the production of the motion picture. Opening credits are normally illustrated with text, which is superimposed resting on a vacant a screen or still image, although occasionally they are utilized on moving action within the movie. Synchronous and asynchronous non-diegetic sound may be used, although it is not necessary. When the opening credits form an individual sequence of their own it is known as a title sequence.
Ordinary opening credits sequence.
Whereas there are big differences in general opening credits, they frequently incorporate some sort of alteration of the standard order depicted here:

“(NAME OF THE STUDIO)
- Name of the studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it (Buena Vista, Columbia, Lions Gate, Universal, etc.)
(NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY)
- Name of the production company that actually made the film
- Name of the investment groups or companies that financed a substantial part of the film (usually credited as "in association with")
(PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR or PRODUCER NAME)
- Director’s or producers first credit, often "a film by XY or "a XY film"
STARRING
- Principal actors, (Sometimes the stars' and director's credits will be reversed, depending on the star's deal with the studio)
(FILM'S TITLE)
- Name of the film
FEATURING
- featured actors
CASTING or CASTING BY
- casting director
MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY
- Composer of music
PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER
- Production designer
(As a variation some of the below may be noted:
SET DESIGN
COSTUMES or COSTUMES BY or GAWNS (older movies)
HAIRDRESSER
MAKE-UP ARTIST
SOUND RECORDING (older movies)
VISUAL EFFECTS DIRECTOR or VISUAL EFFECTS BY)

EDITOR or EDITED BY
- Editor
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
- Director of photography
PRODUCER or PRODUCED BY, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
- Producers, co-producers, executive producers, 'also produced by' (credited for various reasons according to contracts and personal scrutiny of the principal producer)
BASED ON THE BOOK, (PLAY, GRAPHIC NOVEL etc.) BY or FROM A PLAY/BOOK BY (older movies)
- If based on a book or other literary work
Or
BASED ON THE CHARACTERS BY or BASED ON THE CHARACTERS CREATED BY
- If based on characters from a book or other media
STORY or STORY BY
- Person who wrote the story...
...on which the script is based, gets "story by" credit, and the first screenplay credit, unless the script made substantial changes to the story
WRITER(S) or WRITTEN BY
- Screenplay writers
The Writers Guild of America allows only three writing credits on a feature film, although teams of two are credited as one, separated on the credits by an ampersand ("X & Y".)
- If each works independently on the script (the most common system), they are separated by an "and"
- if more than two persons worked on the screenplay, the credits may read something like "screenplay by X & Y and Z and W" X and Y worked as a team, but Z and W worked separately.[3]
DIRECTED or DIRECTED BY
- Director”

Source:http://www.salon.com/entertainment/feature/1998/10/09feature.html

What is a Title Sequence?

The title sequence is the process by which cinematic movies exemplify their titles, key production and cast members, incorporating abstract visuals and audios. It typically follows opening credits, which are normally not anything more than a succession of superimposed text.