Title Order

Zombieland

• ___ presents
• In association with __
• A __ production
• Actors
• Title
• Actors
• Casting by
• Costume designer
• Music by
• Edited by
• Production designer
• Director of photography
• Executive producers
• Produced by
• Written by
• Directed by

Skyfall

• Productions presents
• Main actor, who he plays
• Title
• Other actors
• Co-producers
• Script supervisor, sound recordist, electrical supervisor, second unit assistant director
• Make up designer, hair designer, main actor's make up, wardrobe supervisor, publicity and marketing, promotions
• Supervising art director, set decorator, property master, construction manager, stills photographer, visual effects producer
• Production supervisor, location production managers, second unit production manager, post production supervisor
• Visual effects and miniature supervisor, associate producer
• Unit production managers, first assistant director
• Casting by, main titles designed by
• Special effects and miniature effects supervisor, stunt coordinator 
• Second unit director
• Costume designer
• Editors
• Director of photography
• Production designer
• Music by
• The song name, performed by, written by, produced by
• Ex producer
• Written by
• Produced by
• Directed by

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

• __ and __ presents
• A ___ production
• A ___ film
• Main actor
• Title
• Actors
• Casting by
• Costume designer
• Co-producers
• Sound design by
• Music by
• Editors
• Productions designer
• Director of photography
• Executive producers
• Produced by
• Based on the book __, originally published by __
• Screenplay by
• Directed by

Back to the Future Part II

• __ presents
• A __ film
• (Shows a bit of narrative)
• Title
• Actors
• Casting by
• Associate producer
• Visual effects supervisor
• Costume designer
• Music by
• Edited by
• Production design by
• Director of photography
• Executive producers
• Screenplay by, story by
• Produced by
• Directed by

Every title sequence follows a basic order, but the roles shown depend on the genre of the film. With big action films like Skyfall (part of the well known James Bond series) they require more people to make it action packed and exciting, with sci-fi films the visual effects people need to be recognised and with films based on books they have to recognise the book it's based on in the opening titles. Some title sequences are at the end of the film and tend to be quite different with the director at the beginning rather than the end, although I didn't use any of those examples in this blog post. They all start with the companies involved, followed by the title and then the actors (going from bigger actor or main character to the other end of the spectrum). The titles then show who the casting is done by, then the costume designer (occasionally with a few other roles in between). This is later followed by the co-producers, sound designers/music by, editors, director of photography, producers, the book it's based on if it's based on one, the writer, the producer and then the director is last.