Opening Credits (Hartt)

Opening Credits

The opening credits to the psychological thriller 'Whispers from Within' use mise-en-scene, non diegetic sound and fast editing to build suspense.

In the opening credits, they have used blood which appears to be splatered on the walls where the names of actors are displayed. This is conventional because it suggests to the audience there is a murder of some kind of injury. This is effective because the imagery builds a level of aticipation and keeps the audience in suspense. The colour of the text is red. The connotations to this colour shows evil and bloody making the audience aware of the coming murders and potential evil in the film. This is conventional because thriller use colours to connote meaning that may give a sense of forboding to what might happen in the film.

The name of the production comapany was shown first which allows the audience to build an association with. The logo is of the Oh!man productions is of a man holding a knife. This highlight to the audience the genre of the film. The mise-en-scene of the logo shows the audience igonography that could be used in the film. The knife is conventional to the thriller genre because it is a weapon which is often used to commit a murder. The colours in the logo are black, white and red. The colour red connotes evil and blood/gore, black connotes death, and white connotes purity and innocence. These are all conventions of a thriller. The facial expression of the man in the logo shows his mouth open suggesting anger. This symbolises the generic killers that are portrayed in thriller movies.

Whilst the oopening credit are being played, non-diegetic sound has been superimposed over the top to help build tension. The music is stays at a slow pace throughout the opening credits however half way through the music gets louder. This increases the intensisty which contributes to the audiences level of anticipation. The tones of the music becomes deeper which makes it seem more suspicious.

The size of the title of the film is larger than the names of the people which suggests the difference in importance. The font of the text is effective because it appears to be hand drawn.