Outlaw

The writing is eye-catching because all the letters are in big capitals and all of the names that appear are in red and white; the camera also zooms into the names, which make them even more noticeable. The words appear in front of a plain black background, which helps add to the gloomy effect. The shade of red they used had a lot of black in it; and the white words would fade to black. This suggests danger and it helps make an eerie and dark atmosphere. The music that is being played is sappy love music. The music is a sappy well known love song called “puppy love”. The music confuses the audience because they have most likely seen the trailer before they decided to watch the film, so they already know that there is a lot of violence in it, but the music is in complete contrast to the genre. Throughout the beginning of the opening sequence the audience is left confused and suspicious about what type of film it is and what’s going to happen next. We follow a man and a woman walking down a flight of stairs, dressed in a wedding dress/suit. They are both excited about their wedding that is shortly coming up within the hour. We then see a flyer with the grooms picture on it, which proclaims him dead. The music suddenly stops on the lines “someone help me! help me please”. The audience at this point would start to realise how the opening sequence is related to the actual film. It’s only at this point that we have a clear example of violence and the stereotypical things we expect from a film like this e.g. danger, fear ect I would like our opening sequence to have this sort of effect because it builds tension and makes the film more interesting. It doesn’t give that much away to the audience very quickly, so it constantly keeps the audience in the dark. We are given this perfect image of a husband and wife going to get married, so the audience knows that something is bound to go wrong, so Outlaw does give the audience a little bit of information to work with. However I think this information was given to the audience in order for them to create an image of what would happen next, but I wouldn’t think that any of them would be prepared for the horrific way in which the groom got beaten up. I don’t want the audience to predict what will happen next in my opening sequence.