There were four films that inspired our opening titles these were…

The Ring





The plot of The Ring is about a adopted child named Samara and she was killed by her mother. A tape of was recorded and whoever watches the tape will die in seven days and on that seven day they will see Samara.

The film had a major influence on us because we wanted the character in our film to be similar to Samara in The Ring and for our actress to use similar movements as their character but we did not want the characters to be identical so I (the make-up artist) created a similar face colour. I used pale make-up to create a more scary image because in our opening titles we wanted the audience to know it is a horror film genre immediatly but we tried not to reveal too much about what the film was about.

We used The Ring as an inspiration in a few scenes, like the scene were the camera panes from the mirror to the television because the television in The Ring is reacting by Samara we thought we would do the same but unfortunately there was a problem making the television go that way, instead it went to a blue screen but we used this anyway. We thought the television idea would represent paranormal activity as in most films this idea has been used.

The scene where our actress appears and disappears was an improvised scene but we realised when watching our two minute opening title sequence that it was similar to a scene in The Ring when the character appears, disappears then re-appears. Also we did use a song from the film to play throughout our film but it is unnoticable it is a song from The Ring, we only used this because the eerie impact of the song suited our opening titles.

The Grudge





The Grudge is almost exactly like The Ring but the scenes in the film and the plot is entirely different. The Grudge had the same influence on us as The Ring but we used it in a different scene/ clip of our opening titles and this was the bed scene, when our actress was covered in fake blood on her arms and was crawling underneath the bed. In The Grudge the actress comes from underneath the duvet but we decided to have our actress crawl from underneath the bed. The mid-shot of the actress’s face near the door is a similar shot to a shot in The Grudge, the actresses face is not fully shown.

Hide and Seek



Hide and Seek in comparison is a majorly different film because it is a psychological horror rather than just a horror and the film’s purpose is to make the audience unravel and want to discover who this “Charlie” is. We did not use a lot of Hide and Seek to influence our work but in one aspect we did, in the mirror/ television scene the writting on the mirror was influenced by the scene in Hide and Seek when the blood writing was written on the bath curtain. We tried to create the blood effect but it was not as effective as the Hide and Seek writting.

Amityville II: The Possession




This was a much old film compared to the contemporary ones above, this film was a 1982 horror film and it influenced us on the certain scenes and choice of our titles. In the opening titles of this film, the camera is focusing on the house while panning across the garden and eventually zooms in on the house window. At the start of our two minute titles we decided to have a shot of the house while having the name of the film across the footage much like what this film did but instead of having a steady view of the house we had a jiggly camera view of the house to seem more realistic. Other than the main title, the credits were also in a similar font and colour to the Amityville II, both in the colour white to contrast well against the footage and in a gothic type font. We were going to focus on the window and have the actress appear in the window but we thought the zooming on the window would be too much like the Amityville II.