Slasher Opening Sequences

When viewing a slasher movie you will tend to find numerous stuff in the opening sequences, the list bellow is just some of what may be viewed in a slasher opening:

1. Credits
2. White font on black background
3. Idents
4. Narrative Enigma
5. Dutch angle
6. False scare
7. Intertextuality
8. Post Modernism
9. Audio Bridge
10. Exposition
11. Stalk and Slash
12. Scream queen
13. Final girl
14. Establishing shot
15. Anchorage
16. Polysemy
17. Binary opposite

One of the slasher movies which we viewed was Psycho.

Psycho ( Alfred Hitchcock , 1960)

Box office
Budget: 800k
Gross: 5 million

At the beginning of the film it starts off with a black background and white stripes which appeared to look like they had been cut/ slashed by a knife, this in affect helped make the film more effective in the sense that it hinted what may be to come in the film, these slashed lines passed across the screen.

 As this is occurring the film presents the credits and titles of people who are featuring in the film or who produced and directed the film.

When viewing the opening sequence Alfred Hitchcock's name was viewed more than once during the opening credits.
The film had to be produced however in black and white as at the time that amount of blood and gore and had never been viewed before in a film, therefor the film was R rated which meant that it was the most violent film which had scenes of nudity and sexual violence in it. Now however in the present day it would be only rated a 12 or PG.

Once the opening credits and titles had been viewed the film starts of with an Extreme long shot which pans from right to left, this shot establishes the setting and where the film is taking place. As the shot is panning across the screen titles appear telling the viewer the name of the place they are viewing creating exposition. Gradually the extreme long shot starts to zoom in and focus on one certain window in the whole city (hand of fate), and views the scream queen laying on her bed with a male stood up right getting changed.