Horror Credit Scenes

 Yesterday, I posted about how a film opening should look like with instructions and 3 different examples of film openings. Today, I will be using those same three films but showing how they used the credits to build onto the film opening.

I will list again what a film opening needs to be like

A film opening needs to have these things: 

-Establish a tone: Certain color schemes and lighting
-Illustrate genre: Show the setting and background that your film will be around
-Include credits: Director, Producer, Writer, Main Actors, Editor, Copyright music, etc.
-Include title of film
-Develop a purpose: Whats the conflict
-Engage the audience

Halloween(1978)

                                                                       Opening credits

Now looking at the credits, names are being listing, title was including and we get a setting of where we are going to be at. The music starts slowly and then starts building up getting more intense with zooming into the pumpkin. The director already wants to make it clear that this will be a horror movie with all these elements in the credits without even starting the film. The lighting is dark that establishing a tone and at the end of the credits we see the camera walk up to a house.

A quiet place(2018)

Opening credits

A quiet place starts off with all the credits for people involved and the title with beeping sounds effects and the sound effect of getting concussed adds to the horror like aspect. Something to notice while the credits are playing is the TV's that are in the background and the running of people spotted on camera creates the tone of the movie along with the channel on the TV being corrupted.

Jaws(1975)

 

Opening credits

The credits start by showing all the names of everyone and then they cue the  infamous music in the credits that creates suspense every time the shark is near and they get a shot inside of the water as the sharks POV. It then cuts to a gathering near a bonfire.