opening credits

For our thriller we intend to do some opening credits on a background. For this we will need to research the reoccurring themes for credits in a horror film opening sequence. Here is some research I did looking at clips to see the type of typography they use.

Here we see the black background with white writing on. The typography is block writing which is capitalised.

Similarly to the previous video, the font is block and capitalised. Moreover the background to the majority is black. The font appears on the screen by fading on in each one which shows mystery. Moreover when the font is on the screen you can see the font flashing which could be representative of the lights flashing on in the movie- therefore reflecting some what on the story line. As the lights appear on the screen the who screen seems to flash up which will bring attention to what is on the screen more so. The sound matches when and how the writing appears on the screen- for example when the writing "saw II" appears on the screen there is a dramatic crashing sound which appears from the continuous eerie sound throughout.

Similarly to the rest of the title sequences to horror films we can see a black backdrop with block, capitalised writing on. Red writing is reflective of the story line of death. As the writing starts to melt away in the same way as blood the sound matches it changing to a different type of sound, when new writing appears on the screen, similar to SAW title credits it makes a up beat abrupt sound.

From this we can see that we need to make sure the writing that we put on the screen is in time to sound we choose to use. We can see that the reoccurring theme in horror thrillers openings block and capitalised font which isn't over complicated by being on a straight black background, or something that reflects the storyline.