Today, I will be talking about three different horror film openings that I will be inspired by for my portfolio project. These film openings all show how a film opening should look like in this genre.
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
-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
I will be linking the videos of each ones to give you guys a good idea of what I will be going to talk about.
Halloween(1978)
Starting on the opening of the film now, something that immediately gets my attention is the use of a handheld camera throughout the film. This factor creates a sense of realism, immediacy and a more subjective viewpoint when viewing the film. We can see in the opening the person walk up to the back of the house stalking two lovers in there living room. The person now sees the light shut off which starts the sound come into play. The sound here really elevates the tone of this scene creating a more scary feeling with the added dark background of the scene already. The person breaks into a house grabbing a knife from the kitchen and that right there would grab the attention of the audience and see what's going to happen next. The man leaves the house and the person walks up the stairs into the woman's room. He grabs a mask and walks into the woman's room silently and the woman screams "Michael!" before Michael stabs her and walks out the house. Note in this entire sequence of events in 4 minutes, this was back in 1963 as stated in the credits so we see a flashback of something that could lead up to what we see later in the film.
A quiet place(2018)
The film opening starts with a little boy playing with his toy and everything around him is awfully quiet and the father tells the boy through sign language and lip reading to lower it and and by the looks of it they are in a bad area as the family looks to be packing up. The family leaves and the sister comes to console the little boy and they go on there way. As the family nears a bridge, the little boy stops and starts playing with his toy again. The toy is loud and alerts a creature noted by the music building up and the dad tries to save his little boy but the kid gets abducted and the scene ends there. The film opening would perfectly describe how the movie could possibly play out as the title "A quiet place" means to stay quiet or any loud noises, you die.
Jaws(1975)
Then the opening scene starts with a guy approaching a girl as the sun is setting creating the tone of the action that will occur when the girl runs off into the ocean and the guy tries to catch up but ultimately fails and lies down into the sand. The girl is swimming and gets caught off guard when a shark comes from below and eats her to death. Before and during this sequence, the music created suspense when the shark was approaching her and when the shark was eating her and we get cuts of the two while this is happening.
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