The opening sequence of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre uses several horror and thriller conventions including graphic violence, news reports of murders, and a dark and ominous musical score. It establishes the rural setting and mysterious tone through the use of camera shots of deserted landscapes and darkly-lit interiors. Non-diegetic sounds like heartbeats heighten the tension and pace through fast editing and cuts between shots. The target audience is older teenagers and adults who can appreciate the film's graphic content.

1. Opening Sequence of Texas
Chainsaw Massacre
INA FRANCIA BAYSON

2. Genre and Conventions
 Genre:
 Horror
 Thriller
 Mystery
 Conventions
 Blood and Gore
 Murder
 News in papers about what is
happening
 Dark introduction (Lighting and
Music in background)

3. Video and Still Images
 This is the YouTube video I have seen:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4RgkSMXyLY
A mysterious A wounded or Shows that
character, wants bloody hand or a something happened
you to really see child there, but don’t know
what he looks like what

4. Still Images
Deserted
town, showing a
mysterious aura
Dark room showing
that something bad
is happening
A picture of a
baby, giving the
Chains with blood, telling
audience the urge to find
that there’s been violent
who this is
things happening

5. Font
Joint handwriting
• Can show that someone is
researching about human
body
• Writing a form for hospital
work or someone is getting
admitted in a hospital

6. Camera shots/angle/movement
Extreme Close-up
Establishing shot
Shows the characters Show where the film is
emotions, feels scared set, the time, the mood
of the film
Shows where the
filming is and the
scene around it
Long Shot

7. Sound
 Non-Diagetic is sounds that used in the background
when filming, and it is the sound effects to make the
scene much effective.
The Non-Diagetic sound that was used in the background for the film that
goes low, high, fast or slow.
Making the heart beat
faster

8. Transitions
 They used a fade/dissolve transition on some of the
clips shown in the video.

9. Special Effects and Editing/Pace
Special Effect
Flashback
Showing a form
• Slow motions
of someone from
• Flashback
the past.
Editing/Pace
There are different kinds of
cuts used in the opening How this scene change fast
sequence such as:
• Fast Cuts
• Slow Cuts

10. Images
 Denotation- is what the audience is seeing on the
screen/frame.
 Connotation- is what the picture on the screen
means.
Connotation-
It can mean that a
Denotation-
person is burning a
A picture of a
memory of him/her
man on fire.
or memory of a dead
person

11. Target Audience
 Age group: 15 and up
 The age group that could take blood, violence, killing
people which are not censored unlike other films.
 Teenagers loves getting scared to death on films, and
its good to think who will be the suspect for the
whole film.