Source of Inspiration

I have chosen American horror story's season 2 asylum opening credits as my source of inspiration. This inspires me because I like the sound effects that are used in the opening which build up tension and make the opening creepy and sinister. The sound effects that are used are mechanical and glitchy which are really effective throughout the opening credits as it portrays the genre horror making the opening credits eerie. They use the sound effects to make it more dramatic by increasing the volume and making the glitchy sounds louder, then switching to the mechanical noises to make the opening credits more scary and dramatic.

This clip is also an inspiration to me because the of the way the scenes are edited together, with the sound and effects flashing in and out from scenes. This looks like lightning bolts striking down on the text as it presents a different name. This creates a tense and dramatic opening as the credits come up. As you can see in the screen shot above it shows the strikes of lightning coming across the screen.

I also like the way that the text pages have been formatted to look like they have been filmed on an old video recorder which could only be played on tapes. I know this from the flickering white dots shown on some of the text pages and the sound of the camera that is played at the beginning of the opening credits. This is a really clever idea as it tells the audience roughly what era the series is set in and it makes the text look creepier. The camera also appears more jolty.

The typography of the text is really well chosen as the colour of it fits in well with the idea that the text title pages were filmed on an old camera because the text is the same colouring as the tape would be. It is also a boring and creepy colour so it conforms to our exceptions of its genre. The font that has been chosen is also really well selected as some of the letters have been altered to look different and slightly odd which fits the genre of the series.
I have chosen this for my source of inspiration as I think that I would like to do something in a asylum for my coursework which is where the opening credits have been filmed in this video. I would like to do horror as my genre for my coursework as I find it the most interesting and would love to be able to create my own opening credits in an asylum setting.