Thrillers film sequence opening

Thursday 12th January in class we watched several thriller openings. we acknowledge the use of title sequence because it is used to entice the audience into watching their thriller.
There is:

1. Discrete openings - Discrete editing tend to be a separate to the film because of they way the structure of the editing.

Here is the film:                                         Se7en 

In Se7en it uses discrete opening as we only establish the person doing strange peculiar things as he is cutting the word 'God', covering certain words with black ink and cutting of their finger prints. However we do not see their face or the meaning of it so the audience don't know what the film is going to be about as the opening doesn't relate to the film. this is why it is discrete

    2. Narrative opening - narrative openings tend to create the opening credits relating to the story or        genre of the film.

here is the film:                                       The Shining 

here we see the car getting followed creating a sense that we, the audience, are following them. In addition the camera shot is an extreme long shot it suggest that the people in the car  are being prey on, making the people vulnerable in the film. This makes it a narrative opening because we establish that the people in the car are vulnerable and going to be the main characters in the thriller. 


In addition in the shinning, the opening credits are on top of the scene.


3. Credits on top of a scene or on a blank black scene can be effective once the music is embedded with the thriller, the pace of the credits and the font. all of this can create a tense atmosphere for the audience.

 4. Heavily Stylised Editing opening - Stylised Editing openings tend to take a lot of time in the editing process as it is very complex because they have to use various type of footage and cut which section to go in next.