Deconstruction of opening credits - Final Destination 5

Deconstruction of film opening credits - Final Destination 5

Before we look into ideas about our own movie sequence we have to look at real material that has been made professional to get ideas for about our own. We are thinking about going into slasher films and have ideas built around gore and violence, for this reason I am going to deconstruct the opening sequence of Final Destination 5.

The opening sequence to final destination isn't actually the film. It doesn't include any speaking or even any characters. It starts off with the credits and the warner brothers ident. The ident is important because it lets the viewer know what studio produced the film and any other collaborations. The credits also show the viewer who made the film and who is featured in it. This is a good idea because it means people will defiantly have to view it rather then leaving the film or turning it off at the end. When we do our opening sequence we will have to make one off these. I have some experience in doing this as we did this for our GCSE piece.

Warner brothers ident in opening 5 seconds 

Final destination falls under the genre of a slasher film. This is because it has a lot of gore and violence and has a psychotic killer that kills people with no mercy. It follows most of the generic conventions and conforms to a slasher well. Here are some conventions it conforms to:

• Chronological order
• Insane killer
• Gory and graphic

                                           This is the 3 minute 36 second opening sequence

Camera: There is no specific thing the camera is focused on in this opening sequence. It is not visible for which angle the camera is looking or for how far. They all have a black background and focus on smashing glass with something protruding form the glass such as a skull or a hook or explosions.

Editing: In the opening sequence there are a few editing techniques used. There is a fade to black in the first 23 seconds in-between different idents. There are also dissolves between shots which adds a interesting twist to the sequence. It also cuts between writing and camera shots.

Mis-en-scene: All the things that are filmed in this sequence are to do with destruction and tie into other thing such as death and pain. There are explosions, breaking glass, skull, hooks and many other things that can inflict trauma and bodily harm. This is used to set the tone of the film.

Sound: This opening sequence has a specialised non diegetic sound track. The music is tailored to fit the footage perfectly. This is shown when the glass breaks and the music then makes a thudding sound. They are all in time to each other and this works very effectively