Opening credits

 

Opening credits 

 

Credits by Jason Brown. 

 

 

 

I really like this opening credits clip. I like this opening credit clip because from just looking at the moving pictures and imagery he uses, it just says horror to me. He shows that this is going to be a horror film from just looking the pictures with the sculls and hearts and bones with no skin just shows all the signs of it being scary.  Also the way in which he moves the camera in different directions, it has another impact that its going to be something scary rather than it being just still. It makes me feel that its trying to build the tension in us before the film even starts. Also the camera zooms in and out of pictures and texts, that show the main bits of the credit sequence which i think makes it every eye catching. This opening credits is a bit everywhere when you look at it. It is kind off like you don't know whats going on , but that sense of confusion gives me the idea that it is something mysterious. At the end of the film when it shows the text of social girl varnishes in capital letters, that also shows that this is going to be something mysterious and scary and this also gives a sense of horror. 

 

An American horror movie opening credits.

 



 

The very beginning of this where it cuts to another shot and then flashes very fast to another shot shows that its scary. This opening credits is really fast which builds up the tension from the beginning of the sequence. They show us fast flashes of baby photos and all with different saturation and coluor and a broken picture. This makes me feel very scared and makes me feel that something has happened and that this child in the picture has something to do with it. It also shows flashbacks of skulls in jars and babies again in jars and a woman's picture, and then it cuts to the credits and the text used is also sort of weird and it only stays for about 3 seconds with the text flashing. From this we are shown clearly about what type of genre it is and what it can be about. It also shows us fast shots of someones legs and someone clamping something and then we are shown blood and a woman's white dress. The way we can't really see what is going on in each flash it makes us wonder what is happening and makes it more effective, rather than actually showing us what is happening. Also everything is shown to us quite dark which also is a sign of danger and mystery. At the end we are shown pictures and broken photo frames, skulls in jars all burning by fire. This also is a sign of horror. Also even the end credits with the name of the movie and when it is coming out, is it all static and moving around so that we are not able to see it clearly but still can work it out what it is saying. It is very effective in a way it is just very fast because that makes us as a audience, think fast and makes the tension build throughout the whole opening credits.