Research (Coursework)

Our group have decided to completely change our idea as we didn't believe our current one was working so we done something very risky and decided to start all over and use our planning more conveniently.

This is some research on opening credits to successful horror movies so that we could get some inspiration from them by combining things we like and making it our own. 

 The shining was an amazing film that was mentioned as a favourite in our interviews when asking people what there favourite horrors were..

In the sequence we pan through the mountains as we watch a car driving deeper and deeper into the unknown. As the camera follows the vehicle into the wilderness, all kinds of connotations are developed through the opening minutes. For example the disorientating viewpoints at the beginning  establish the dramatic tone of the often surreal and disorientating action that it set to follow and likewise the shots of the car near the edge of the mountain offers us a perfect metaphor of a family who are on the edge of a emotional collapse; a key dramatic element which develops throughout the course of the picture. It is really the use of sound though that helps to makes the opening so darn creepy. Blending perfectly with the imagery to provide a haunting undercurrent to the horror on the surface, the animalistic noises send chills down your spine and absorb you into the world on screen. All in all there is really this sense of something terrifying just waiting to happen and it makes the build-up all the more suspenseful and unsettling. 
The titles are a light blue which really stand out, more or less bright like a hazard sign, a warning due to the brightness of the blue, the transition is it scrolling up on the screen almost like something bad is on its way linking to the car travelling to somewhere but the destination isn't revealed leaving elements of mystery and suspense. 

The Killing was a film that we were inspired by as their opening credits stood out for us. 

CLICK HERE TO SEE CLIP OF THEIR OPENING CREDITS

We thought that our credits could respond to our genre and leave elements of mystery, as we use sound to juxtapose with our credits which allows to audience to connect with the character, as the happy song allows them to not want anything bad to happen as they connnect with the song, although the credits bring the theme of horror.

We conducted some research in order to see what kind of things in horror movies appeal to them so we could embed things whilst filming our final piece.