Genre Styles

We took some time to decide on the genre we wanted to use for our film opening and after talking to my group members and discussing our options we decided to choose horror/thriller.

To get an early idea of what kind of techniques and styles used in the industry we sat down and looked at openings to Horror movies.
First we watched the opening to "The Exorcist" (1973), very little happened during the opening exchanges and we struggled to find and helpful techniques from this opening. We then chose to have a look at "Friday The 13th" (2009) this opening scene had much more immediate action with scenes of sex and violence, the body count was around 5 by the time the titles even rolled. we then watched the beginning of "My Bloody Valentine" (2008) It's opening scene was more setting the main backstory through newspaper articles created by CGI, this scene had tense non diegetic music backing it up .We then watched the opening to the based on real events movie 'The Exorcism Of Emily Rose' which set the tone of the movie with a really tense opening scene with non diegetic music and a general sense of dread.