AN - Sample Opening - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
Budget: $80k
US Box Office: $30m
UK Box Office: Non Given

• Time period anchored with text at the beginning
• Non-diagetic sound in background, nothing on the screen just black, narrative enigma
• Flash of decomposed hand, half a second on the screen
• Flash of decomposed face
• Flash of decomposed feet
• Signifies CSI (the flashes) so something has happened to the bodies the police want to find out about
• Flash of decomposed head
• The music adds tension
• Flash of hands again
• Flash of teeth and then decomposed face

Techniques we can take from the opening:

• We could anchor our time period like this film at the start of ours and maybe anchor a location to give the audience more information on it.