INA FRANCIA BAYSON

Opening Sequence of Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Genre and Conventions

Genre: Horror Thriller Mystery

Conventions Blood and Gore Murder News in papers about what

is happening Dark introduction (Lighting

and Music in background)

Video and Still Images

This is the YouTube video I have seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4RgkSMXyLY

A mysterious character, wants you to really see what he looks like

A wounded or bloody hand or a child

Shows that something happened there, but don’t know what

Still Images

Deserted town, showing a mysterious aura

Chains with blood, telling that there’s been violent things happening

A picture of a baby, giving the audience the urge to find who this is

Dark room showing that something bad is happening

Font

Joint handwriting

• Can show that someone is researching about human body

• Writing a form for hospital work or someone is getting admitted in a hospital

Camera shots/angle/movement

Establishing shot

Show where the film is set, the time, the mood of the film

Long Shot

Shows where the filming is and the scene around it

Extreme Close-up

Shows the characters emotions, feels scared

Sound

Non-Diagetic is sounds that used in the background when filming, and it is the sound effects to make the scene much effective.

The Non-Diagetic sound that was used in the background for the film that goes low, high, fast or slow.

Making the heart beat faster

Transitions

They used a fade/dissolve transition on some of the clips shown in the video.

Special Effects and Editing/Pace

• Slow motions• Flashback

Showing a form of someone from the past.

Flashback

Special Effect

Editing/Pace

There are different kinds of cuts used in the opening sequence such as:• Fast Cuts• Slow Cuts

How this scene change fast

Images

Denotation- is what the audience is seeing on the screen/frame.

Connotation- is what the picture on the screen means.

Denotation-A picture of a man on fire.

Connotation-It can mean that a person is burning a memory of him/her or memory of a dead person

Target Audience

Age group: 15 and upThe age group that could take blood,

violence, killing people which are not censored unlike other films.

Teenagers loves getting scared to death on films, and its good to think who will be the suspect for the whole film.