Research:What Is Genre And Teen Drama?(task8)

Genre: A category of film, for example, horror, comedy, romance
Teen Drama: A drama series (or film) that is heavily focused on teenage characters

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.

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

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

The amount of credits shown in the title sequence may reflect on the film's budget. The larger budget films are required to credit the 'important' people involved in the film. They're credited in order of importance and before the film is made, lawyer of each cast member, production team etc. battle on whose name is credited first. Lower budget films don't credit all of the behind the scenes people, such as the costume designer, music director and casting director.

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

Budget of 'My Brother The Devil':

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

Budget of 'Beautiful Thing':

• Budget: unknown
• Opening weekend: $33,931 (US, October 11th 1996)
• Box office: £3million