Task 2: The analysis of an opening film of a 'Halloween'

HALLOWEEN

John Carpenter directed, wrote and did the sound track for this movie. The theme tune is an Iconic sound track which has been put in a lot of different movies and TV shows. The soundtrack is being repeated all the way through the movie and it is repeated as a sound track that it does not change that much. The music is creepy and scary which fits with the genre of the movie which is a horror.
It is a 1978 American horror, independent film which is set in a fictional town of Haddonfield, Illionis USA.
It is a suburbian town  on Halloween who a boy kills his sister after he thinks she lost her virginity, after this he is sent to a mental institution for 15 years before he gets out and he comes back to his town to kill virgin girls before they lose their virginity.

The title sequence
The titles change color from yellow to red which it links with the genre as the colors that turn from yellow to red is fire and connotations of fire is danger which means that someone will probably be killed and we got that just from the titles. the titles are creepy so they also tells you what is the genre of the movie.
The name of the movie is 'Halloween' and the pumpkin on the left of the screen links with Halloween as it is the symbol of Halloween. The pumpkin gets bigger by the camera is basically zooming in or forward tracking on the pumpkin so as the pumpkin gets bigger it suppose to scare us. As the pumpkin gets bigger the music changes and builds up to create this psycho killer mood and the music depends and gets more darker.
Then it zooms in more on the eye of the pumpkin may show that as there is a sub POV of the antagonist this might be showing that this movie will start from the antagonist's point of view.
fade out of the pumpkin.
Some movies you are trying to figure out where the movie is set but with the caption screen it tells you that it is set in the fictional town of 'Haddonfield, Illinois, USA.


The opening scene
it is set in the nice suburbia middle class which changed the way horror movie conventions are as ever other horror movie before this one were set in dark, gory places which were in foreign places but John makes this movie come more alive as he takes it to a normal nice place and turns it into the antagonist's playground of fun. He basically took the killer home.
The titles have not faded away and you have a sound bridge of children which will signify as children are innocent but as the antagonist is not innocent and the opening scene might tell us why he will not innocent. Also, this might link in with the killer as he might be a child to show him when he was good and then he will become the killer he was destined to become.
You hear the words 'trick or treat' from children which kids always say that on Halloween  which creates the Halloween mood and then it pans to a white house.
There is sub POV of someone walking round the house looking at two teenagers when the male teenager says 'we are alone aren't we' which is like they feel that they are not alone but with someone. high pitched sound no cuts for this part making it more real as this is someone basically stalking two teenagers.

The music changes to make it more dark as the camera which is a subjective point of view of someone makes this more darker as he is trying to get into the house. you see someone taking a knife after the two teens go upstairs, you see a hand reaching for the knife which could mean that when teenagers are home alone they will want to have sex so person with a knife may want to kill them if the teenagers lose their virginity.
The clock makes a tick tock tick tock sound which could mean that the time is running away for someone. The person who is stalking the two teenagers grabs the mask with his right hand which he also used the same hand when he was took the knife, he took the mask to cover him self so that no one would recognize him and normally killers, thefts and other villain people wear masks to cover them selves so he may be trying to the same as antagonists do.
After the male teenager leaves the house the female teenager is half naked sitting and the bed is rugged up whent the camera looks at that which could show that she and her partner had sex so the female lost her virginity.  Then the person uses the knife to kill the female after the person thinks that they just had sex because the antagonist wanted for them not to lose their virginity. You find out that the person with the sub POV' s name is Michael and the feamle knows the man as she is disguested of him as he came into her room when she is n naked. She could be related to him as no one wants to see their siblings naked and he had access to the house so he might be living with her in the same house.

 After the male child kills the female in her room he goes down stairs and outside with a knife and then you see the child with his knife and his parents just came looking at him confused as why he has a knife in his arm so for the first time we as audience see the antagonist because the subjective point of view made it look more interesting.
at the end of the scene there is a crane shot looking at the two parents and the child withe the knife, they have a car which was a big deal in those days as in the sixties there was not that many cars in those days so the parents are a middle class citizens. also, you can notice it by the clothes that they wear as the father has a suit on and the mother has a nice dress.