Evaluation - Codes and Conventions (for our Genre) In Our Title Sequence

When doing my research into title sequences (from our genre of horror) i found the film Crave on artofthetitle.com.

From this i noticed that they used their title sequence for 3 main purposes; to inform the audience about who was involved with the film (e.g actors, the director etc), to set the atmosphere of the film and to give the audience hints about what will happen in the film.

To the right you can see that we used our title sequence in the same way as Crave. This is because we have shown a knife being cleaned and also revealed who edited the film. The knife is an important prop in our film as it is the weapon used to kill Amy. The knife therefore gives a hint to what is going to happen in the film. Other important props appear within our title sequence (e.g photos of the girls) and so i believe that it is important to include these to help engage the audience.




Crave used music to create a tense atmosphere for their audience due to it being a horror/thriller film. The music that they used was quite up tempo and had unique sound to it. In comparison, the music that we used was also upbeat however it was a piano solo and so was not very unique. Our choice of music did set a tense atmosphere though, due to it being mostly high pitched. Both our's and Crave's music faded out to silence at the end title which also added to create a tense atmosphere. I therefore think that a tense atmosphere is a general convention of horror films.