research on horror title sequences.

The two title sequences i will be looking at is saw 5 and nightmare on elm street 3. Saw 5 is a very simple start , as usual it is a unsuspecting victom in a gruesome trap fighting for his life . As the traps always end badely for the victem we know that that person will not be in the rest of the film , so it dosent really give us a knowledge on who is the rest of the film. nightmare on elm street 3 is a little bit different when it comes to characters. It starts with a group of kids wich u know is the main gruop of kids in the film and they are attacked by the main villian but every one survives. this introduces the main villian and the main characters. This also was the way we chose to prsent our story.

Although they are both in the same genre of film , they both give of different messages. saw 5 gives a sense of a brutal and gory film because of it immediate slaughter theme . you get this message by by the trap and how it ends , the man fails to escape and is cut into two with a giant pendulam .The nightmare on elm street gives of of very differnet vibe , the main characters are introduced straight away.You know this because at the begining it starts with a flashback of the previous film and how that one ended.

The music is also very different , in saw 5 the music is pounding and dramatic toreally get you on edge and out of your comfort zone , this is good because it does get you into the mood for the genre. were the nightmare on elm streets music is eery and un nearving wich really does give you a sense of the type of horror film nightmare on elmstreet is going to be. This was the kind of music we was going to use for our openingle sequence.

I chose these two title sequences because they are both very different , this will show you how different horror titles can be and how they are different. As a group we have decided to make a eery , ghost an poltergiest kind of film so we will need slow but scary music for the background. If i had to choose wich film i wanted mine to be most like it would be nightmare on elm street because although it is scary it is also obvious that there is a complex and horrifying story behind it all.