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Teen Drama- Title Sequence

Larger budget films, such as 10 Things I Hate About You and Mean Girls have more credits in their title sequences than lower budget films, such as My Brother The Devil and Beautiful Thing. This is due to the fact that more people are contracted in larger budget films, however lower budget film usually have more production companies within the title sequence. 

The order in which they are presented change also in terms on the budget allowed for example: 

Title sequence of '10 Thing I Hate About You' included:

• Production company
• Title
• Cast
• Casting director
• Music director
• Executive music producer
• Associate producer
• Co-producer
• Editor
• Production designer
• Executive producer
• Producer
• Script writers
• Director

Title sequence of 'Mean Girls' included:

• Paramount
• Paramount pictures
• Lindsey Lohan (main character)
• Title
• Cast
• Casting director
• Author of the book the film is based on
• Music supervisors
• Co-producer
• Costume designer
• Editor
• Production designer
• Director of photography
• Executive producer
• Producer
• Director

 Whereas title sequence of 'My Brother The Devil' included: 

• Film company
• Production company
• Cast
• Executive producer
• Producers
• Director

Title sequence of 'Beautiful Thing' included:

• Channel 4 films
• Cast
• Title
• Writer
• Producer
• Director

These are all teen movies but request different things within their title sequences. The difference between mainstream and independent movies have a large gap in terms of budget provided meaning the credits shown are also affected as larger budget films important figures have more of a demand to be within the opening sequence. However the up side is that larger budgets me higher box office revenue.

Budget of '10 Things About You:

• Budget: $16millionUSD
• Opening weekend: £439,976 (UK, July 4th 1999)/ $8,330,631(US, April 4th 1999)
• Box office: $53million USD

Budget of 'Mean Girls':

• Budget: $17million
• Opening weekend: £1,393,494 (UK, June 20th 2004)/ $24,432,145(US, May 2nd 2004)
• Box office: $129million USD

In comparison to the budget of 'My Brother The Devil':

• Budget: £690,000 
• Opening weekend: $10,305 (US, March 24th 2013)
• Box office: £1.2million

And also the budget of 'Beautiful Thing':

• Budget: unknown ( although not seen we can assume it wasnt more the £500,000)
• Opening weekend: $33,931 (US, October 11th 1996)
• Box office: £3million