Title research: underwater

 One of the opening sequences that our group decided to research from the 2020 film "Underwater." Our group used the site "Art of the Title" in order to research and view the title sequence from the film. The film's genre was a horror, action, sci-fi, falling under the genre we wished to make.

In the opening sequence, titles displaed in the sequence include the company presenting it, the subsidaries of the film, the title of the film, the Music By, Edited By, Names of Actors, Casting By, Visual Effects Supervisor, Production Designer, Director of Photography, Executive Producer, Produced By, Story By, Screenplay By, Directed By.

During the sequence, the images priorirized included documents such as maps and news articles. No people were shown in the sequence, it seemed to be mostly blueprints and plans.

The connotation that the images in the sequence carried included a sense of growing dread, as if something was going to occur. The articles seemed to continuously include negative articles and plans to dig deeper into the ocean. This creates a feeling of impending doom or as if something is going to occur.

The film establishes a feeling of horror as the images show as if something is going to go wrong, as if there is an arising issue that is going to be large. The film also does the job of creating a feeling of uneasiness and seems to create a sense of negativity. Additionally, subtle details seemed to show as if there was something terrible.

The strategies that the film uses to appeal to its target audience is the music choice (in this case suspenseful), as well as the quick cuts and the documents of the events occuring in the movie, appealing to an audience waiting for a horror movie.

The effectiveness of the technology that they use includes the quick cuts between the documents in the sequence in order to create a suspenseful situation, as well as the zoom ins and the flashes of light. This allows for the film to add to their targetted genre and audience, being horror.