Title Research: “Dead Silence (2007)”

My group and I watched the title sequence of, “Dead Silence” (2007) from the Art of the Title website. There are twenty-three titles displayed in the opening sequence. Images that are prioritized are images of the creepy doll the older women are creating. All the sketches, drawings, and pictures are all shown while she creates her “perfect doll”. Connotation images used to carry throughout the movie are the images of the doll being made along with the scary music because it makes the audience question, what is wrong with that doll and what will happen with the doll? Horror is reinforced in this opening sequence through symbolic and technical codes from the outset because of the dark lighting, the strange angles of the creepy doll, and the dark red titles. The film establishes an enigma from the outset by showing a woman putting a creepy doll together. The strategies used to ensure the target audience is eerie music, dark lighting, candles, creepy drawings, tools, and worst of all, the scary ventriloquist doll. The technology has been used effectively because from the establishing spot, wide shots, high angles, dutch angle, long shots, point of view, pan, extreme close up, zoom, cross-cutting, shot/reverse shot, jump cuts, and fade out.