We all allocated ourselves with two different thriller genres and we brainstormed ideas of what we would focus on for our film opening. I looked at film noir opening sequences and found that the opening music is quite ominous and the scene is misty and suspenseful. An example is the film Rebecca by Alfred Hitchcock which is a suspenseful horror about a mysterious death and the director looks into it through out the film. Throughout the opening sequence, there is an eerie mist upon the grounds of the manor. This adds to the suspense and mystery as it is difficult to see clearly. The writing gradually appears and then disappears which gives the element of mystery and surprise as the writing disappears, leaving a ghostly trail of mist behind it. The soundtrack constantly changes from high pitched to low pitched. This shows how it isn't a calm and flowing film and their is a mystery and change in it. The opening sequence is quite plain which juxtaposes the film as a lot happens. This has been done deliberately so that the film comes as a surprise to the audience. The font of writing is in a bold colour and the writing is quite large which connotes a warning, as if something/someone is dangerous which foreshadows Michael Myers, the murderous psycho in the film. The pumpkin is a typical convention of Halloween and it represents that the film will be of a spooky, horror genre. The pumpkin is carved with a smile which is ambiguous as it may foreshadow that children will be targeted because in the film, teenagers are being hunted. However it could also suggest a sense of deception as pumpkins are meant to send away evil however in this film, the murderer uses the night of Halloween as a cover of him to kill his victims.
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