Halloween Analyis- Art of the Title Sequence

CHOOSE A TITLE SEQUENCE WHICH APPEALS TO YOU AND WRITE A SHORT ANALYSIS OF IT.

HALLOWEEN (1978)

Halloween (released in 1978) is a classic example using a title sequence to lure and capture the audience's attention to watch the film. The sequence begins with a dark screen where we immediately hear the sinister high-pitched score. Each text is only shown on the screen for a couple of seconds and dissolves into the black screen. The style of the font is very distinct and bold capturing the audience's attention whilst disappearing. This creates a sinister feeling because it might allow the audience to believe that people may disappear one by one. It is shown in orange slowly changing into red to depict the type of genre of film it is. Red is normally associated to danger so added with the title of the film 'HALLOWEEN', it gives a taster to the audience to what the film may be about. The audience is introduced to a halloween lantern/pumpkin fades into the black background which flickers in and out with the music. This emphasises the halloween theme of the film sets the scene for the rest of the film.
As the sequence goes on, the camera moves away from a long shot to a zoom in to where we focus on the pumpkin. This gives a thrilling image as by already moving in a little circle on its own by zooming allows the audience to feel paranoid and some sort of fear. Zooming in from a long shot to a close-up of a pumpkin draws intensity for the audience to watch the film. At the beginning of the sequence, the production company 'Compass International' slowing moving to the director of the film 'John Carpenter' and the actors who star in the film itself like 'Jamie Lee Curtis','Nancy Loomis' and 'PJ Soles'. Already the audience is established to the actors already and are imagining what type of character they would be portraying in the film away from their previous movie roles. The image of the pumpkin and the titles are collaborated with each other very successfully as the colour scheme is the same and relevantly selects the tone for the film. The theme music used to accompany the title sequence complied with piano and theatrical high violin notes work well together. This could represent in the film where it could connote some sort of chase and the dark undertone of the piano keys could represent the villain. This could force the audience to watch the film as the theme music is dramatic persuading them of the potential action and drama likely to be featured on the film.