I found that the use of titles and the soundtrack together at the beginning of this film is very effective as it immediately sets the scene and also adds fear and tention. The font of this movie title sequence is white, which is highly noticable against the all black background. Then the font then changes to red, the fact that the font changed to red clearly shows that it has strong connotations of death, danger and blood. This instantly starts to build up a tense atmosphere, along with the sound playing this clearly further adds to the tense atmosphere. This is because the sounds consists of heartbeats, screams and a loud telephone ringing.
The use of the heartbeat sound instantly connotates panic and fear, however this is consequently making the audience feel this fear to upon watching it. Along side that the use of the screaming sound signifys terror, and fear and torture, which helps with the versimillitude of the scene. Then the fear highly increases as the fact that the girl can not see who is actually calling her, which helps add more tension and eerie feel to the scene, also the audience feels tension and fear to as they do not know who the voice belongs to aswell.
The repeated ringing of the phone builds up the fear , this acts as a sting as the ringing of the phone is connected to the fear of the unknown, this effects the audience more and more every time.
The shot of the house after the first two phonecalls builds up even more tension this shows to the audience that the 'unknown' caller is outside, watching the house. This shot is very effective as it is giving the audience the point of view shot as the 'unknown caller' making you feel fear for the girl inside as only the audience knows that the caller is outside waiting and watching. This help add extreme fear and tention.
This fact is verified when the caller says ''I wanna know who I'm looking at''. The house that the film is set in has a lot of windows and doors, which creates an atmosphere of tension as the feeling of being exposed is created. The tension created is always built up by the clever use of a close up of the popcorn ready to pop, like tension ready to explode. The use of music at the point in which the girl is rushing to lock the doors is very effective, as it adds a sense of drama to the scence, and makes the audience panic. The close up of the girls face when she says ''What kind of game'' is effective in inflicting fear on the audience, as the girls fear is magnified by the close up, therefore the audience immediately feels everything that she is feeling. The audience to this film would be an older audience, with a high age rating, as the use of sound and camera angles is effective in creating a high fear factor. This is useful to us as a group, as our desired plot is going to be in a house, with someone being watched, and therefore we can use a lot of the skills and techniques that the producers and directors have used in the opening to this film. This film is also useful as it is of the genre we have chosen - teen horror, and therefore various techniques such as the feeling of being watched will prove to be very useful when it comes to actually filming our piece.