Research: The Importance of Titles In Film Opening

Titles are very important in a films just because it clarifies what type of film genre you are about to watch.The opening title sequence of a film is that film’s opportunity to make a good first impression on you, the viewer. A well-crafted title sequence introduces the audience to the tone and theme of the film as well as the cast and crew. For example, they tell the audience a lot of information about the film as shown above. In the film 'Se7en' the name 'Brad Pitt' is first to come up as he is the most well-known and famous actor in the film and it was very important to have him in the opening titles of the film because it might attract the audience. Not only is this good for the movie but it is also good for Brad Pitt because it raises his profile and exposure.

 Here is how the opening text of the film looks like. the thing with this is the way it is been presented and here they have used the idea of credits as handwriting to suggest the dark part of John Doe’s personality and his obsession, and he actually scratched all the credits on a scratchboard and then scanned it back in. Then they made an animation, pieces of film where the type is clear and everything around it is black, and put those on a light box and shot them all on film, and then opened the gate and over-exposed them. they had to composite all these type accidents on top of the live action plate 

(se7en opening title)

here are two other opening titles that are totally different to se7en but from the opening, you can easily get the idea of what type of film they are:

here the the opening for saturday night fever which is a film that you get the feeling of people eventually dancing, partying and having fun through out and this was showed from the use of music and how the characters footstep matched the background music and the use 

In the case of a James Bond movie, its gun barrel sequence, as designed by Maurice Binder, acts as a fanfare. Then the raucous music, vibrant colours and dancing silhouettes kick in, preparing the audience for a heightened realm of intrigue and violence. The Bond films have changed much over the past 40 years, but their use of titles as a means of establishing tone and pace have remained broadly the same.

Research: The Importance of Sound in Horror Films

Sound in horror films are very important because sound refers to everything we hear in a movie.
There are two categories of sound in film: Diegetic and Non Diegetic sound - Diegetic sound can either on screen or off screen and it is refer to as the actual sound like doors slamming, footsteps etc.

Non diegetic sound are therefore the sound from outside of the fictional world that we can see on the screen for example, the shower scene in the film Physco.




Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho has become one of the most celebrated American films in its genre and Bernard Herrmann’s music for the film contains an equally celebrated musical icon—the slasher music—that has become a universal motif for all slasher films. The roots of this slasher music are found in a tune called “The Psycho Theme” (a label given to it in the cue sheets) that has been largely ignored over the years. This paper illustrates how the “The Psycho Theme” is transformed throughout Psycho and how it degenerates into the most famous icon in the history of film music. In addition, a rationale is offered to explain the shift from tonal to atonal music over the course of this film.

Sound is often overlooked in films but it is often the single most important element in setting the mood for the scene. Music has the ability to set the tone for how events will unfold. Music may progressively build to signify that a dramatic event is about to happen or it may be upbeat to lighten the mood. Horror films rely heavily in sound clips to create a scary scene. One does not think about it but if one were to remove the sound from a horror film its fear factor would decrease dramatically. John Hubinette in his article “Music and Sound Effects in Horror Films” stated that music is more powerful in horror films than any other genre. The purpose of a horror film is to scare its viewer and the director tries to do that in all ways possible. Scenes in horror films are usually graphic and may contain images that are meant to scare or repel us from the movie and, coincidently, keep our attention so we do not look away. The story usually takes many twists and turns and the ending is always difficult to predict in order to keep the viewer on the edge of their seat.

Music

this is one of the most important aspect of a horror film as it is helping the film try to create specific mood to the scene. the effective use of music will help promote even more emotions to the audience.
even though there are a lot of diverse range in the music that has been used throughout different horror films, some of these common conventions include:
*isolation instrument  are often used just before a key event occurs which helps link the ideas of vulnerability, to the audience.
*long suspenseful notes often help contrast with short sharp notes to help shock the audience.
*extreme but intentional change to very fast big pitched notes to makes the audience feel immediate tense.


here is what i found about sound effect and examples
of what is used to

Research: Audience Feedback

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3J2H3YG


Here is a link that shows the audience feedback to the survey

https://www.surveymonkey.com/analyze/bz_2BjcEAg8MjAF21blXmzpLdnPM9GDBLfqEeejnn00ys_3D

planning: who are our target audience

Me, Tom, Lewis and Ryan sharing ideas on our pen portrait

Planning: potential opening

me and my group were given a task to think about the potential opening that we could use for our horror film opening. they are two different opening that we came up with for our film called " the last night"and they re:

who
who was involved in the horror film?
what
what happens in the horror film?
when
when did it happen( day/night)?
 where
where did it take place from?

opening 1:


it start of with two friends that fall out with there parents and they run away together in the woods. they got lost in the woods and Stephen gets injured and that lead to them trying to find shelter and they found an abandons farm and decided to split up which then lead to mysterious disappearing.

opening 2:

it start with injured Stephen looking for shelter and the characters looking mysteriously at the barn house, then it goes to  flash back of 100 years ago which shows that they s mysterious deaths of the former owner. then it went back to the normal time with lewis trying to get injured Stephen home and as they arrived home9 thinking safe for the night, mysterious deaths of the two characters then takes place.

planning: 60 seconds pitch