Main influences. - Planning Film opening.

Main Influences

Many horror films create a big influence on the audience as if they could create a film opening theirselves. Unlike them, we can. The following films revealed with their own plot summaries will be bullet pointed on what the influences are shown. These can be from lighting too sound to other things. At the end of the bullet points, a brief explanation of the positives and negatives of the film opening will be explained.

Dark Touch - Created in 2013.
Dark touch is a film based in a remote town in Ireland. This eleven year old girl called Niamh finds herself a sole survivor of a bloody massacre, which killed also killed her parents and younger brother. Due to suspicion that the massacre was a gang if homicidal vandals, the police ignore the explanation from Neve, that the house is the culprit. Neve was soon taken in by the dutiful neighbours to help ease the trauma with the supervision of a social worker. This troubles Neve's peace more, as she tries to find it among the wholesome and nurturing couple, and horrific danger which continues to manifest. 

• To begin the film opening, the production logo of IFC was shown with its personal animation. The music was also revealed to be cheery instead of eerie, before the whole production logo faded to black after a few seconds of revealing itself. 

• The eerie music of a piano playing but also a violin together was played throughout, this music became tensing and on-edge for the audience watching.

• Against the black background, the white text in small is shown to appear to reveal the credits to the film. The all used the fade in and fade out effect. The black background faded out after the credits for the participation of other fundings, productions and images was shown. 

• The scenes for the film opening faded in, in very dark lighting which had also a blue tint. The only light shown was through little amounts as a reflection or the highlight of an object.  The first fade in shot, revealed the side of a shelving unit. 

• While the scenes were shown through two different camera movements, the credits continued in white text across them all until these scenes completely faded out. 

• The two camera shots in this film opening was the movement of the pan shot and tilt shot. These would have been used to reveal the full imagery of the furniture in the house in a more eye-catching way. Even though the furniture was shown unclearly in the dark lighting effects, the camera movements managed to travel from one piece to another and gave the audience the clear idea that it was actually furniture being shown. 

• Cut-ins was also used, when the rooms changed or the close-up shots of objects changed but kept the same camera movement. These cut-ins were used regularly and are extremely noticeable. 

• When the inside of the house and furniture but also credits finished, the whole scenery faded out to black before the fade in of branches outside were revealed. While the branches kept a distraction for the audience to begin with, the focus began to slow disappear before the title 'Dark Touch' appears in capital letters but also in the colour white.