Title Research: The Reaping

 For the third film we're going to be discussing the opening sequence of The Reaping. The film was released in the year 2007. I watched the opening sequence of this film on the website Art of the Title. I studied it based on our horror genre. I examined it due to the following questions.

 The amount of titles in the opening sequence are 20 titles total. It starts off with series of main actors and producers and closes out with company presented by which in this case is the Warner Brothers. The titles come in on a black background with a red text. They come in as a jumble of words but are soon rearranged into words. They stay like that for a little and then leave in the same way they entered.

 The images prioritized are very vague. They do not show clear imaging of what exactly is taking place. The scenes are a close of up a lady’s face, then it goes into the titles where there are red washed photos of things such as leaves. There are also some unintelligible pictures but they mostly flash onto the screen and then leave.

 The images has you feeling very intense, anxious and anticipated as to what's occurring and what's happening. The music that goes along with the opening makes it even more unsettling. Since they are extreme closeups, they are unsettling because we have no clue what they are. The feeling of not being able to understand what something is is a common fear in humans so they use this to their advantage.

 I would definitely say the genre is enforced through the score in the opening sequence. The bumps along the music takes you on a roller coaster through emotions. The pictures changing goes along with the music in perfectly timed switches to other close ups.

 The enigma established in the film is very intense and dramatic. The way that it was established was through the use of different elements of filming, such as sound: the extremely suspenseful instrumental. There are flashes with the use of editing, and lighting also contributing to the mood and theme of the genre.

 The target audience of the film are horror fans. The film uses a certain aesthetic throughout the film, and the color design is very dark themed. The font used was a red font. These are inherently creepy due to the previous mindset of horror. Which is, as I said before, unsettling images and creepy fonts.

 The use of technology was essential for the opening as it is entirely editing techniques. There are no camera angles of any sort used in the opening sequence more so graphics and mainly editing. With editing there were a couple of fade ins- and different sorts of transitions to move the titles along. The titles also had a floating effect, making a dramatic entrance each time through the sequence. There was also the ability to change the colors of the images to make them all one color.