Thriller short analyisis

Sleepy Hollow

Horror/Thriller Film

Box Office

Budget: $100 million

Opening Weekend: $30,060,467 (USA 19th November 1999)  (3,064 theatres)

Gross: $206,071,502 (Worldwide)

Opening Sequence: http://www.movietend.com/sleepy-hollow-1999-%E2%80%93-filme-online-video_25308.html  (first 2 minutes)

•The sequence begins with the opening titles accompanied by tension music which gives a feeling of interest to the audience;

•The opening titles are made with dark colours and disappear leaving space to the following title by fading away;

•Right after the opening titles, we’re thrown into the film by a close up of what looks like blood but we’ll find out it’s not very soon. A hint of the plot is given by showing a man and woman’s hand holding each other and a testament being signed and sent to a location that we can imagine is the place where the film take place.

•The lighting of this opening sequence is soft and relaxing but the music is not, implying that something not happy is happening.

Mindscape/Anna

Psychological Thriller

Box Office

Budget: $4,357,373

Opening Weekend: $397,978 (Spain 24th January 2014) (154 theatres)

Gross: $1,218,200 (Spain and Singapore)

Opening Sequence: http://www.hdlord.com/item/124/anna-mindscape-2013/  (first 2 minutes)

•The sequence begins with the opening titles written in white letters on a black background, but instead of a tension music we hear foley sounds in order to give hints of what’s happening even though we’re not seeing it;

•After the opening titles, we ourselves looking at a window and a clock in a dark room during night. A character is introduced who turns on a non tension music which challenges the normal conventions of a thriller. Right after it, the challenge ends and we hear something breaking a something that we usually see in a thriller occurs: the character exits the room and goes to check what happened;

•Dark colours and foley sounds are used for this sequence. The house where we see the character is dark with really few light turned on and the sound of an object breaking is exaggerated since we can hear it clearly but it’s not in that room.