SP - Sample Opening: A Nightmare On Elm Street

A Nightmare On Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984)
Budget: $1.8 000 000
US Box Office: $11 000 000
UK Box Office: Not Available

Low angle / Close Up of feet and we don't see the mans face so its a use of narrative enigma
High angle of man putting knives on table but only hands are shown
The man is wearing a red sweater signifying blood, death and danger
Close up of a hand picking up gloves
Close up of man cutting object still with narrative enigma and could be foreshadowing things to happen in the future
Close up of man hammering knife/glove contraption (the object Freddie wears on his hands)
Close up of filing down knife contraption
Close up of man using blow torch on the contraption which signifies he is a skiller craftsman
Extreme close up of him sliding the glove contraption onto his hands
Close up of him looking at his hand and weilding the knifes on it. 
The shots are also very quick and don't last longer than a second or two.
Non-diagetic sounds which include very long keyboard notes 

AN - Sample Opening: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
Budget : $80 000

US Box Office : $30 000 000

Time period is anchored with text at the beginning 

Black and white background signifes evil and good but also there is alot more evil than good. It also signifies the film is going to be serious
Non-diagetic sound in background but nothing is on the screen just black which is narrative enigma
Flash of decomposed hand but only on screen for half a second
Flash of decomposed face
Flash of decomposed feet
All the flashes could signifies CSI so something has happened to the bodies and the police want to find out about
Flash of decomposed head
The music coincides with the flashes and it adds tension
Flash of hands again
Flash of teeth and then decomposed face

Camera slowly zooms out to reveal a body tied to a tombstone in a graveyard

AN - Sample Opening: Cry Wolf

Cry Wolf (Jeff Wadlow, 2005)
Budget : $1 000 000
US Box Office : $10000
UK Box Office : £190 000

Narrative enigma of the killer as there is a lack of lighting.
Phone symbolises the time period and it also provides a small ammount of light for the girl
Point of view shots are used when the killer is chasing the girl during the opening.
A white flash transition is used in the opening to move onto the next scene.
A gun shot can be heard during the transition and this signifies what the killer's weapon of choice is.
High angle panning of a red forest is used to signify the season the film takes place in.
The wolf in the lying game could hint at a possible killer.
The killer's face is hidden via a mask so this is narrative enigma.
Cry Wolf has similarities with The Boy Who Cried Wolf. 

 

RS - Sample Opening: Friday The 13th

Friday the 13th (Marcus Nispel, 2009)
Budget : $19 000 000
US Box Office : $65 000 000
UK Box Office : £2 000 000

Remake of the 1980 film

Second shot anchors the location as there is a sign with "Camp Crystal Lake" written on it
Woman screaming in pain/fear signifies the hprror genre
Very dark shots with rain and lightning in the background so you only see things for a very short period 

Meanwhile the credits pop up every few seconds so the shots are very short and this is typical for the genre
Jasons mother gets be-headed foreshadowing things to happen later on
Typical scream queen is weilding a machette and be-heads Mrs Voorhees
Time period is anchored by text at the bottom of the screen 

A transition is used to signify the scene changing along with text to acompany it and tell the next time period
Black and white effects have been used to show its a flashback
The womans head on the floor anchors the genre of the film and this is the reasoning for why Jason goes on the rampage. It can be foreshadowed when he looks down at his mother or watches her get beheaded.
The necklace he picks up is a family heirloom which is important later in the film.
The mother saying "Jason our special boy" can anchor on who the boy is 

SP - Sample Opening: Saw V

Saw V (David Hackl, 2008)

Budget : $11 000 000 

US Box Office : $56 000 000

UK Box Office : $6 000 000 

It is raining heavily and there is non-diegetic sound of thunder in the background

The opening shot is of a door lit up by a light and the camera slowly starts zooming in on it 

We see a sign on the door that says trespassers will be prosecuted which signifies someone who has done something wrong is going to be punished in this building

Extreme long shot of a dark room with someone tied up 

Mid shot as the camera pans over one side of the persons body and we see he has a series of tatoos on his chest

Man suddenly awakes and thre is a close up of him to show his emotion of finding himself unable to move.

Lights come on to add anchorage of the setting 

High angle of body signifies his lonliness 

A TV turns on in the corner of the room and a man wearing mask apperas. This is narrative enigma as we never see his face

He has a very deep, one toned voice which adds tension

Another light is turned on to discover an axe that will swing above his body

Close up of clock shows how long he has got until the axe his kill him

Close up of device that will cut off his hands but freen him from being killed by the  axe

Quick paced shots as the axe starts swinging above his body 

Close up of hands being crushed in device

High angle shot as the axe cuts his body in half 

Cut away shots as blood hits the walls 

Final shot is a POV shot of the victim looking at a door and there is an eye looking back at him through the hole

SP - Sample Opening: Scream

Scream (Wes Craven, 1996)

Budget : $15 000 000

Box Office : $103 000 000
Scream 2 was made in 1997 and Scream 3 was made in 2000

First shot is of a blonde women on the phone to mysterious caller 
Man on other end has a scary voice so she hangs up
Shot of outside the house and a swing attached to a tree is moving. This signifies that the mysterious man could be outside
Close up of woman putting popcorn on the cooker when the phone rings again but this time the girl is quite flirty with the man and plays with a kinfe which could foreshadow later events
Popcorn starts over cooking but the woman is distracted with the phonecall
Camera tracks woman through her house when man says "I want to know your name ............ because i want to know who im looking at". This is when the music stops and the camera zooms into the girls face showing her emotion
Music suddenly starts becoming loud and dramatic and we can hear a dog barking outside
Again she hangs up and she runs back into the kitchen where the popcorn is on fire which signifies danger
The phone rings again as if he is stalking his victim and this time he is really angry and he starts playing on the girls mind 
The next shot is of her boyfriend tied up on the porch with blood and bruises on his face
Intertextual references from Halloween and Friday The 13th as mysterious man plays a game with the girl to save the boyfriends life
When girl gets the second question wrong the boyfriends insides gets ripped out which signifies the mental state of mind of the killer

AN - Sample Opening: Babysitter Wanted

Babysitter Wanted (Jonas Barnes and Micheal Manasseri, 2008) 

Budget : Not Available 

Box Office : Not Available

Music is very slow and childlike at the start which links in to the film name 
Close up and fuzzy effect of an unknown object which is polysemic 
Low angle/close up of someones legs wearing black trousers which is narrative enigma as we nevver see his face but also he is the killer
Unknow object turns out to be a girl tied up
Close up of a box of tools on a desk which signifies a weapon could be used from that toolbox 
Extreme close up of the womens face and it shows her eyes which shows emotion because she is crying
High angle of the desk again but htis time there are a series of knives lined up 
High angle of the women tied up and the camera slowly pans over her body where we find she is only wearing her underwear but she also has lines drawn all over her which could connote that the killer could be about to disect her body
Close up of womens face when we see a hammer being lined up on her forehead. This signifies the mental state of the killers mind 
The music at this point is really loud and intense to create fear in the audience 
The last shot we see is the hammer in mid air and a sound affect to signify that the girl is dead
We dont actually see the killing as our immagination is better than anything they could film 
The musoc stops and the camera goes black