Title Research: Get Out


 Hey guys so for this video I'll be talking about the opening sequence to "Get Out" released in 2017. There were multiple titles in this opening sequence. It named the main cast, director, production companies, casting director, music supervisor, costume designer, production designer, executive producers, producers and director of photography. They also named the writers and creators of the film and finally the name of the Film. In this opening sequence the director decides to show a man packing a trunk and leaving in what seems to be early morning. It then shows trees passing by that seems to be in woods during dawn. This is where most of the cast is introduced. The scene switches fast into a series of pictures of black people in their lives. The sequence then shows a modern apartment and a man coming out of a steaming shower beginning to shave. As he does it shows a woman picking out sweets at what seems to be a café.  It shows the woman exiting an elevator and walking to a door where she knocks with her head and the man opens the door, with a smile on his face as she moves in for a kiss while the door closes behind them. The director is showing a couple who live in the city. They're showing their normal lives and what they do in the morning. The director doesn't use many of the conventions of thrillers when it comes to lighting. The director does however introduce a sense of mystery with the man packing a trunk and driving off. This does get the audience to wonder who the character may be and where are they going. Or whether or not they're the ones driving in the woods. The director chooses to present the movie as bright and energetic when showing the modern apartment. There was no dialogue in the opening scene so not much is done to suggest this movie is a thriller, besides the opening scene. The director did use an array of camera techniques like close-ups, medium shots, wide shots, pans, dolly's, and tracks. The only one that did build any sort of thriller effect was the wide shot in the beginning and that was shortly cut off when we were introduced to the modern apartment. When it comes to editing, the different fast cuts, break the sense of anxiety. Failing to bring out the suspense of the person driving a car through the woods and switching into a modern apartment doesn't bring the feeling of a thriller.

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