Reason Behind Our Title Sequence

We decided to keep our title sequence simple, as we found the black and white font, combined with the music created an appropriate tense atmosphere for the audience due to the design of the titles revealing nothing about the up and coming narrative, despite the hint at the possible idea of "Good Vs Evil" or opposing sides through the contrasting colours creating an immediate visual clash. We devised this idea after looking at the titles used in the thriller, "Prom Night", a film that appeals to our target audience of teenagers from 13-18 due to the idea of a prom taking place within school, something which teenagers are familiarise with, a dramatic twist occurring within what appears to be an innocent event, an idea which we adopted for our own opening. The titles use a swirled white font, giving it an almost "fancy" appearance and adding a decorative appeal, which would feature within a prom;subsequently fitting to the narrative. Similarly we used a "typed" style font within our sequence fitting with the style of a school newspaper, in which our dramatic event would be likely to appear. Nevertheless, unlike "Prom Night's" titles, that appear on screen as the camera tracks the city from a bird's eye view, we decide to have our titles appear on after the other on a black screen at the beginning, in several corners of the screen, as we did not want to create "a sense of place", however, a sense of anticipation and the unexpected as the titles appear in unexpected areas, as we are left with the dramatic music building suspense.