Aice Media Portfolio (three credit sequences)

Researching Three Credit Sequences.

All these credit scenes are meant to help me and my group brainstorm ideas to depict these psychological aspects while containing the idea of horror. All the following sequences give credit to the authors, directors, producers, and main cast.

Credit sequence 1: "American Psycho" 2000

In this credit sequence, many factors help the viewers understand the type of man Patrick Bateman is. The sequence contains a bland white background, using fancier fonts, allowing viewers to expect this man to be one of class. The director chooses to create an image of red liquid drops. This could be depicted as blood, when in reality is sauce for gourmet food. Further images are shown when a chef swings a knife down on a piece of meat. This provides some types of violence throughout this depiction of elegance and professionalism.  This can be further implied by the classical type of music which helps create an unsettling atmosphere, adding beautiful sounds, mixed with the disturbing depictions. This helps develop the story's tone, by offering insight into the professionalism exuded by the sequence, while hinting to a disturbance in this elegance, like something off.

Watch only the beginning 1:48 seconds of the video to watch the opening credit sequence.

Credit sequence 2: "The Black Phone" 2021

In the Black Phones credit sequences, I really enjoy the VHS-style credit sequence they make. The movie takes place in 1978 so it makes sense to do this, but it also adds a form of disturbing visuals with the constant bugging and glitching in the credit sequence, as if it were breaking, and decaying,  adding a more unsettling tone to the style the credits are played. Throughout the entirety of the credit scene, the music used is extremely sharp and eerie, haunting, making the sequence more horrific to listen to. The credit sequence contains a lot of imaging, showing constant missing persons posters, hinting at the overall plot of mass missing person cases throughout that area. The images played throughout aren't played vibrantly like in regular fillings, but due to the quality of the VHS tape style, makes these colors more dreadful, darker, and bland setting a darker tone for the movie hinting at the terror it's supposed to induce. 

 

Credit sequence 3: "Alien" 1979

In the movie Alien, director Ridley Scott chooses to begin the title sequence with a slow build-up of a camera just shifting from left to right. This build-up mixed with the simple visuals of just space just gives off the sense of isolation. These dark, empty spaces, it gives the immediate idea of the cold and known space, giving viewers the truly known fact that nobody could hear you in space. In Alien, they don't offer the idea of looking at the stars and seeing "wonder" all you see is dust and darkness. The music used in the title sequence contains two parts, these ambient droning sounds which sound to be used to show the echoes of space, but at the same time, the other part is this high-pitched, screeching sound which gives this tone to stay on edge. This greatly helps to build on the psychological tension.

I've actually been enjoying these credit sequences, they keep me on my chair feeling the pure utter terror that they're meant to start the film with. Sometimes I even take off my headphones for these or lower the volumes cuz they disturb me. Especially that black phone one...