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Creative Opening Sequences.

This is the analysis of two creative opening sequences. I chose law abiding citizen because throughout the scene you wouldn't expect an outcome such as that one. It gets very chaotic, very quickly.

It shows a normal family with a normal family life, suddenly it turns gruesome. 

Next I chose Social Network as it follows the walk of a student back home to his dorm, Flying above him, the camera shows the life outside of the class where people are chatting, having a good time etc.. 

Institutional Research

Survey Responses

Audience Profile

From the responses to my Horror Survey so far, I seem to have many people that like the idea of my horror film, as they state that they're big fans of horror films. As well as this, they did answer the questions regarding the last horror film they watched and the genres they are most fond of, and I now have an idea of what my audience profile is.

People around the ages of 16-19 year old.
People who like scary characters, scary music and sound effects, blood an gore and just generally being scared.
However the people that answered this survey watched a film that isn't similar to mine at all as it was a different sub-genre to mine, although they did say they'd watch it.


This is my audience profile. I determined this from the responses I got from my survey. This gives me a good idea of where to improve/change our film and how to make it suit the audience a lot more.   

Nine Frame Analysis

Title Sequence Analysis

Title Sequence Analysis

First of all the film ‘Scream’ has quite a typical horror opening title sequence as it includes a dark background, and some animations that look like blood (making the slasher genre stand out more). Also this title sequence involves different types of musical instruments to get the full horror effect. The sounds used are often strings and synth adding depth and mystery to the sequence. This particular sequence is one of my favorites because it’s pretty simple and I think that the simpler it is the more mysterious and effective it will become in the long run.

Once again there is another horror film that is pretty similar to scream in the title sequence as it shares many of the same features, the film is Friday the 13th. Some of these features being, blood splatters, black backgrounds and really similar music of strings and synth to add an eerie effect, however the music is quite different in the speed and intensity as the movie’s story and way that characters develop and inevitably die is different from Scream.

And finally there are those title sequences that have changed over the years and have more editing and are not as simple and basic as the other ones. I feel this spoils some of the movie as they show clips of what happens in the film in some parts of the title sequence, and they show the characters etc. However there are some I quite like, for example 28 days later has a good title sequence and uses a song that is popular now since it was used, the song is not only popular but it fits the situation as it’s quite chaotic even though it’s quite slow and dull.