The opening credits of the mystery thriller film construct the genre through cryptic writing on a wall without any visuals of characters, creating a sense of mystery. Visually, names are shown being ripped out of wallpaper by children whose identities are unknown, furthering the intrigue. An eerie musical score builds tension as the ripping sounds emphasize the disturbing written text. The typography uses mixed casing and an inconsistent font to appear creepily disjointed. Shadows of hands ripping paper transition between text, leaving the nature of the ripper ambiguous and mysterious. Very little information is directly provided to maintain narrative mystery.

1. OPENING CREDITS ANALYSIS.

2. HOW IS THE GENRE OF THE
FILM CONSTRUCTED?
• The genre of the film is a mystery thriller.
The genre of the film is constructed in the
way that the opening credits don’t show
any pictures just writing on the wall leaving
us with no knowledge of who that
characters are-leaving a sense of mystery.
• We are given gaps that we

3. WHAT DO THE OPENING TITLES
SHOW, VISUALLY? HOW IS
NARRATIVE ENIGMA CREATED?
• Visually, the opening titles show names on
wallpaper, however there are children ripping the
names out of the wallpaper.
• This creates a sense of mystery as we don’t
know who the children are.
• Narrative enigma is created when the wallpaper
is being ripped we get a sense that thoughts and
ideas have to be ripped away in order to fin out
the truth.

4. WHAT IS THE EFFECT OF THE
MUSIC?
• The music in the opening credits is very
eerie and chilling, adapting to the genre of
thriller.
• The sound of the ripping paper and the
sound of the gong emphasises what is
being said on the wall and gives a sense
of mystery.
• The piercing sound of the violin creates a
sense of tension for the audience.

5. HOW HAS THE TYPOGRAPHY
BEEN USED?
• Some of the letters are in lower case and
some in capitals. This makes the writing look
extremely immature, reiterating the creepy
childlike form , and showing how disjointed
and twisted the plot and storyline will be.
• Also the writing has no style of specific font
again creating a sense of mystery to the
audience.

6. HOW HAS THE SEQUENCE
BEEN EDITED?
• When the next set of words come onto screen,
the transition is the shadow of the child's hand
reaching out and ripping the paper.
• This gives a sense of mystery because the
audience don’t know whether it is meant to be a
real child, a ghost or some kind of supernatural
human. This answer is left for the audience to
watch on and find out for themselves.

7. WHAT INFORMATION DOES THE
OPENING SEQUENCE PROVIDE?
• The opening sequence
doesn’t provide much
information apart from the
name of the film and the
names of people involved
with the making of the
film.
• This is a good way to
open he film in the way
that it doesn’t give any
information about the play
and what we will see.