Knowing

I watched the film Knowing starring Nicolas Cage and I thought that the opening credits were really effective. This is because they started as numbers and formed into peoples names and the title. The title also faded away with the clouds which was really good. The significance of the numbers is that there are dates of major events and this is why they have done the credits like this. There were certain sounds that were emphasised to make the audience jump which was effective because I wasn't expecting it.

Information on end credits

I found this information on wikapedia about the different ways of how end credits may appear in a film:

Closing credits or end credits are added at the end of a motion picture, television program, or video game to list the cast and crew involved in the production. They usually appear as a list of names in small type, which either flip very quickly from page to page, or move smoothly across the background or a black screen. Credits may crawl either right-to-left (common in U.K. television programs) or bottom-to-top (common in films and U.S. television). The term credit roll comes from the early production days when the names were literally printed on a roll of paper and wound past the camera lens. Sometimes, post-credits scenes or bloopers are added to the end of films along with the closing credits.

Wikapedia

I found this information on wikapedia about opening credits:
In a television programme, motion picture, or videogame, the opening credits are shown at the very beginning and list the most important members of the production. They are now usually shown as text superimposed on a blank screen or static pictures, or sometimes on top of action in the show. There may or may not be accompanying music. Where opening credits are built into a separate sequence of their own, the correct term is title sequence (such as the familiar James Bond and Pink Panther title sequences).