The sequence is 02.50 seconds long; the
producer has made the whole thing in black and white. This could be to show
that the film is dark and he also uses statues and cobwebs to make the house
that it is shot in look old and abandoned. There is use of pathetic fallacy
with the weather, at the beginning and end of the sequence it is snowing and
the sky looks dark this could be to show that the film if set in the winter
months or that it could be a scary frightful film. The music used has no lyrics
and is quite repetitive; it is reminiscent of a child’s song with humming. This
makes the old house seem scarier. There are a lot of old scissors, machinery
and stairs that are filmed and then actors names, roles and the title slate is
placed on top of these scenes. The beginning starts walking in through the
door, but no one is inside the house, which makes it even creepier. The
sequence sets a genre because it is dark and gloomy which makes the
person-watching think that they are about to watch a thriller. The fact that at
the end it pans out onto a view of the house and it is isolated with no other
houses surrounding it also adds to how the sequence makes the audience think
the genre is thrilling. No one is seen the whole way through the title sequence
so it makes the audience want to continue watching the film to see who lives in
the old, dark and dirty abandoned house. The story is of how ‘the inventor’
created a man with scissors as hands and then died, so this sequence sets the
story because the house is empty which obviously belongs to ‘the inventor’ so
there must be the man with scissors as hands living in this old abandoned house
alone.
