Kendell Burgess created a mood board and discussed elements for a film opening title sequence for a slasher horror film. Settings with a scary atmosphere were chosen. Iconography featured knives or cutting objects to harm victims in a quick or slow death, similar to other slasher films. Characters typically include victims who are unaware and a killer who wears a mask or disguises their identity. Titles are usually bold, red, white, or dark colors in the middle of the screen. Camera work incorporates establishing shots, aerial shots, and close-ups of victims' faces or the killer's weapon.

1. Kendell Burgess
FILM OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE
MOOD BOARD

3. SETTING
• I chose these setting locations for inspiration on my opening
film title sequence because they have a scary atmosphere that
goes with the genre of the film.

5. ICONOGRAPHY
• In slasher horror films you see a lot of knives or objects that
would cut someone or harm them in a way it was either a quick
or slow death so I used this in my opening film title sequence
because I wanted to keep the theme of the weapon the
same/similar like in other slasher horror films.

7. CHARACTERS
• Characters in slasher horror films generally vary from victims and killer(s).
The victims seem to be young adults that don’t really have any idea on
what's going on/what’s happened before. From what I’ve seen the killers
in a slasher horror usually sport a mask of some sort to mask their true
identity or just someway try and mask who they truly are, either by masks,
different names, etc. For my opening title sequence I used this for
inspiration.

9. TITLES
• I have noticed in horror films that the titles are usually bold in
font and placed in the middle of the screen. The colour doesn’t
really vary as I see film makers using the bold red, white or
dark colours for the titles. I used this when looking at the title
for my film opening sequence.

11. CAMERA WORK/CINEMATOGRAPHY
• In horror films there are different types of camera shots that
obviously vary throughout the film but I’ve noticed establishing
shots and aerial shots being used to show off the usually scary
place where the scene is set. Close ups are used quite a bit too
to either show the emotions on the victims face when
something bad is about to happen/happening or when the killer
has appeared and there's a close up on his choice of weapon. I
used these techniques in my final piece.