Research: Dracula intros

In our media class, our next task is to plan and prepare for the intro scene to a horror movie. After watching 3 movie intros of our own during the autumn holiday, we watched 3 dracula intros:

The first film we watched was the intro to the 1922 horror film Nosferatu, by F. W. Murnau, this film was bright and cheerful in the intro, but the opening credits were dark and had a loud low key tune playing.

The second film we watched was the 1958 Dracula, starring Christopher Lee, by Terence Fisher, this film like Nosferatu was bright in the intro but the shot zoomed into a coffin which then had blood thrown on it to show a foreboding tone.

The third and final film we used to research was the 1992 Dracula, by Francis Ford Coppola, Starring Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder, this film opened on a narrative providing the audience with Dracula's story on how he became a vampire. The film intro used low key lighting and used plenty of iconography such as maps with the muslim religion symbol dominating it to connote an invasion.

The conventions we picked up on in these activities provided us with invaluable conventions to use in our coursework once filming begins.