Forms & Conventions

The purpose of a film opening is to keep the attention of the audience. A film opening should establish some or most characters and the genre of the film.
The opening can include up to many things such as :  Title Sequences
                                                                                     Establishing shots
                                                                                 


In our opening we have started of with a two second establishing shot of our location; Angel Road Station.  We looked at Arlington Road (1999) and this influenced us to shoot this.

We then presented "Warner Bros Presents" which is our film/production company. We've chosen this particular company as its well known and large universally. It will be noticed by our audience as we have aimed it at 15+.

The name of our director has come after the company followed by the producer, cast, music producer and finally our title. We've decided to put it in this order because of the status in the making. Our title is last for the audience to remember and embrace the title throughout the movie.

The font we have used is 'cracked' and in white throughout our opening. The crack signifies something creepy yet subtle. It doesn't have any particular effect such as fade as we wanted it to be simple and standard. However with our title at the end of the opening, each letter pops up one by one again to establish it.