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3. The Opening Credits - Final Destination 5
The Final Destination franchise certainly likes having fun with its opening and closing credits sequences, and the best of the bunch must surely be Final Destination 5.
The opening titles are a glorious stylised sequence where dozens of iconic, deathly objects from the franchise's history - logs, ladders, microwaves, tires, and so on - are thrown towards the viewer, smashing through the glass credits as they do so.
Everything about this sequence suggests that it was done 100% digitally, especially as Final Destination 5 had the joint-highest budget of the series up to this point, and opens with an elaborate, CGI-infused bridge collapse set-piece. If they could pull that off digitally, some opening titles would be a walk in the park.
Surprisingly though, the titles were actually produced mostly in-camera, with the title design team genuinely launching objects through sheets of glass towards the camera, while the camera was safely positioned behind another layer of glass.
Hell, even the text titles were achieved practically, with each letter of each credit being individually laid out on the glass before the object of choice was launched at it.
The credits do include some VFX elements, such as fire and blood being composited into the frame at points, but even so, the bulk of what you're seeing here was executed practically.