Credit Sequences

Halloween

The opening of ‘Halloween’ begins with non-diegetic music and it sounds almost like a timer/ticking. At the beginning the music is pretty simple and it is played with a black screen on which creates a tense and eerie atmosphere. They used black because black connotes evil, death and mystery and the music has a mysterious feeling so perhaps it suggests that something bad is going to happen. All of the titles also have 3 different colours, they start in red, then to dark orange, then to light orange and then back to red. The colour red symbolises fire and blood so it is associated with energy, danger and power. Also the colour orange connotes deceit and distrust and it is also seen as a very bright and powerful colour, so because of this the titles are placed in the middle of the screen as it attracts the audience’s attention. The pace of the credits are quite slow and it matches the music with it. The fact the credits are flickering and going slow adds tension and eerie atmosphere and it is almost like we are waiting for something to happen.

 
 












Step up
The opening of 'Step Up' starts with some ballet dancers stretching ready to dance. The colour of this is a beige/brown and the credits are in white/cream. White symbolises innocence, purity and goodness which represents ballet dancers and brown symbolises seriousness, stability and structure, which again these dancers must have. So the colours almost emphasise their personalities. When the dancers are warming up there is no music and it is just silence. This shows their calmness and elegance.











After it goes on to street dancers in which the colours are blue, black and white. Blue connotes power and seriousness. We would see that the street dancers have a lot of power because of their talents and the way they are. Also black connotes power too and elegancy so it is showing us what they enjoy and what they are like. Again they use the colour white to how us innocence, although they are powerful they are still innocent dancers. The sound when these are dancing is sirens and typically noises you'd hear on the streets, so it emphasises they are street dancers because of their surroundings. The credits go quite slow in this as well and this would represent the ballet dancers as they are slow and elegant but the music matches the street dancers as it is up beat and sharp.