The Art of the Title Sequence- Taxi Driver

Time Line Analysis: Taxi Driver (1976)

0.02: Columbia Pictures Presents
0.08: Robert deNiro in
0.35: Taxi Driver
0.39: Bill/Phillips production of a Martin Scorsese Film
0.42:- Starring Jodi Foster
0.44: Albert Brooks as Tom
         Harvey Keitel
0.49: Leonard Harris
0.50: Peter Boyle as Wizard
0.54: And Cybill Shephard as Betsy
1.07: Music by Bernard Herman
1.13: Supervising Film Editor Marcia Lucas
         Film Editors Tom Ralf a.c.e, Melvin Shaphird
1.16: Special Makeup Dick Smith
1.21: Visual Consultant, David Nichols
          Creative Consultant, Sandra Weintraub
1.26: Director of Photography Michael Chapman
1.29: Written by Paul Schrader
1.41: Directed by Martin Scorsese


As you can see, there are a lot of credits in under the first 2 minutes of the film. In this case there isn't much action going on in the background. It's mainly full of establishing shots to give you and idea of the location and in some occasions it shows a close up view of some eyes which briefly introduces you to the character.
This could be the kind of shots that i could use in my own 2 minute opening-  it doesn't give much of the film away and keeps the audience interested. Also, the credits were quite simple and had no fancy animations to them so again, i could use this idea in my film if it reflected what it was about.