Planning Opening Credits - Miss Georgiou

The purpose of opening credits is to allow the audience to acknowledge different roles within the movie, to show the importance of the whole crew and how each participant played an important role. These roles are mainly production company, people helping out in things like lighting, directing, acting etc. These credits also include the film title, usually in a bigger font to emphasise the importance within the short sentence. The title highlights the storyline to give the audience a glimpse towards what the film is going to be about. Opening credits also introduces the mood or style towards the particular horror film, this is shown by the type of font and colours and the background scenes, either showing danger or trouble towards a certain character. 

My experimentation with opening credits

Cara's experimentation with opening credits

This clip from the film 'Se7en,' is a typical opening credit scene towards the genre of a horror film. As you can see, it is very mysterious and creepy, giving the audience a particular vibe towards what the opening sequence is going to be about.

The colours of this particular opening credit scene has the font colour of white, layoured over a dark background, this is representing the difference of the innocent and dangerous characters, (antagonist and protagonist) and conveys to the audience that innocent people are getting killed by the evil, mentally unstable people within the storyline. As there were flashes of red throughout this particular scene, leading the audience to interpret that the character is very grossum, and is involved within danger, death and blood, which is conventional and effective towards a particular thriller film. 

The style of this scene looked, in my opinion, like a hand-written font for the credits, which then flashed onto the screen and seeing it fade into each other. This was purposely used to show the audience danger towards a protagonist they are about to be involved in, also there will be more than one victim, as the font and style is continuous for every person that took part within producing the film. The writing is also very jagid, to show the audience something is not right, with the scenario and also with the character towards a mental level. The character is also cutting up pictures of peoples faces, this was in my interpretation that it could be victims faces and he is getting ready to commit a dangerous crime. This also conveys to the audience that this character has a lot of hate and envy towards certain people and this is how he is taking out his anger.

Towards this credit scene, there is a lot of thriller conventions which makes it effective and suitable towards this particular genre. For example: low key lighting plays a big part within this scene, which shows danger for the character and also makes the audience sympathise for the character easier, creating a quicker, more fonder bond towards characters and the audience, showing an emotional level towards particular scenes. There is also a knife in this sequence, which is a form of iconography, which is a sharp, dangerous instrument which interprets towards to the audience that the antagonist is planning the victims death, which makes it effective and conventional within the genre of a thriller.

The order of appearance upon this opening credit scene is firstly, the production credit, showing the a name of the director, the main actors names. Then the title in which has been edited with a bigger, bolder font to make it stand out more, this then enphasises the main storyline the one worded title is showing. Afterwards, the rest of the actors names appear upon the scene depending on how important their characters are in the movie. This is important towards any movie as it allows the audience to acknowledge people who have worked hard to make the movie effective and jaw dropping.

All of our attempts for opening credits were a good effort. For my idea, I wanted to make it quite shuttle and to fade in and out to put a more mysterious vibe onto the opening sequence. I thought this would be an effective and efficient idea. Caras idea, however was more detailed, sherif ides more effects which went well together within the thriller genre. Although, mine and caras ideas were suitable, we thought Harry's idea would be most effective as his was similar to ours, but more eye catching and tension building towards what the opening sequence is actually about. 

For my opening sequence, I think will choose a very mysterious font and background images to leave the audience wonder what happening within this particular scene, making them want to watch on. There will be eerie, non-diegetic music to build tension within this scene. The lighting will be low key to create a sense of danger within the victim of the character. I think this will make the opening credits of my work effective as it is all conventional towards a thriller film.