Film Task - Conventions Research

Genres:

- Horror
- Comedy
- Sci-fi
- Fantasy
- Romance
- Crime
- Action
- Adventure
- Musicals

We looked closely at the Horror Genre today, looking at the elements of film trailers and opening titles that make them scary or thrilling for an audience. We watched a few movie titles on http://www.watchthetitles.com/ and http://www.imdb.com/ and http://www.youtube.com/ to get an idea of what they are like.

Two title sequences we watched were for:

 (2010)

and

 (2002)

In the majority of horror films, in the opening titles not much is given away to the audience. It is very mysterious which requires the audience to keep watching to find out what happens. They use slow music to create an atmosphere and often use very dark colours to add to that atmosphere.
Even though Let Me In was made 8 years after 28 Days Later they still appear to have similar title sequences. Neither of them introduce main characters; only 28 Days Later shows one setting of the film which gives the sense of mystery and gives a tense atmosphere.

Also in both openings they give a blood effect that pours down the lettering on screen which tells the audience that there will probably be death involved so they are always anticipating death throughout the film.