Title Research.

Art of the Title is a site that our media teacher introduced us to, and in terms of research and ideas, this came in very useful.
It gives a variety of different opening sequences (of all genres) and brief expansion on how and why the credits/title/logo and so on, we're used and how they were affective/not.

Typography.

example of San-serif font; Arial, Verdana, Tahoma.
example of Serif font; Times New Roman, Garamound, Century Schoolbook.