The Purge
A title sequence is the opening introduction to a film giving us an idea of what may be in the film or give us any clues as to what may or may not happen.
Ingredient
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Purpose
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Production and Cast Credits
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Telling us the companies, directors, actors etc. that are
involved with the film.
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Overview of the whole setting of the film.
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Giving us a very brief overview of the theme and what may
happen in the film. This particular one is showing us the whole house where
the film is set. But it is showing it without giving away too much to the
audience. For example this is set in the urban areas of the USA.
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Genre
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Giving us an idea of what the film is about and the kind
of things that may happen
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Mood or atmosphere
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This adds to the genre in that we see whether the there is
any conflict or anything significant between the characters.
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Music
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This also gives the audience a glimpse of the time period
by the instruments and the tension in the film etc.
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Title
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The title adds to the theme as behind the text it has
lines implying the CCTV feed from video cameras from the film.
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The opening sequence to the film The Purge starts with a small part of the credit sequence of just the production companies with blank backgrounds. It then progresses to introduce the rest of the cast and crew over the top of the video feeds.
The text transitions by fading in and out on each feed. The text is white and this could connote or suggest light, purity, good, innocence and purity which could mean this applies to a certain part or character in the film as the representation of white is the opposite to a horror film. With the camera shots it is purely video feed from CCTV camera for effect.
The mood is created by pure non-diegetic sound which adds to the theme and atmosphere of the opening sequence. The music for this opening sequence contradicts what the audience are seeing. The music is slow, calm and is classic music but while this is playing in the background, the audience are seeing people being attacked and killed, buildings set on fire and countless other things. But this music adds to one thing which is that the music seems to be playing as if this attacking is normal and if you see the feeds, there is no police or anything to stop them therefore the music just supports the fact that the characters/people in the film find this normal aka they find this attacking normal as this is "the Purge".
We do not see characters as such in this sequence but we do see people in the film but no one specifically. We see people being attacked in almost every feed, buildings on fire, people lying dead but there is always a certain amount of people in each feed like there is no one on their own unless they are the attacker.
This opening sequence gives a very big insight into what we will see in the film and what the Purge actually is. This opening sequence makes the film very obvious to the audience and doesn't hold back any hints. The main objective here is that people are attacked legally and that all crime is legal for a night only as on each feed it is the same date which also tells the audience that there is a reason why there is attacks.
The text transitions by fading in and out on each feed. The text is white and this could connote or suggest light, purity, good, innocence and purity which could mean this applies to a certain part or character in the film as the representation of white is the opposite to a horror film. With the camera shots it is purely video feed from CCTV camera for effect.
The mood is created by pure non-diegetic sound which adds to the theme and atmosphere of the opening sequence. The music for this opening sequence contradicts what the audience are seeing. The music is slow, calm and is classic music but while this is playing in the background, the audience are seeing people being attacked and killed, buildings set on fire and countless other things. But this music adds to one thing which is that the music seems to be playing as if this attacking is normal and if you see the feeds, there is no police or anything to stop them therefore the music just supports the fact that the characters/people in the film find this normal aka they find this attacking normal as this is "the Purge".
We do not see characters as such in this sequence but we do see people in the film but no one specifically. We see people being attacked in almost every feed, buildings on fire, people lying dead but there is always a certain amount of people in each feed like there is no one on their own unless they are the attacker.
This opening sequence gives a very big insight into what we will see in the film and what the Purge actually is. This opening sequence makes the film very obvious to the audience and doesn't hold back any hints. The main objective here is that people are attacked legally and that all crime is legal for a night only as on each feed it is the same date which also tells the audience that there is a reason why there is attacks.
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