The title of the film appears on screen in large ,bold ,red lettering. The colour red connotes blood and the large slit that cuts through the word 'Psycho IV' suggests that something is being cut.At the same time a sound which resembles bones breaking is played. The title changes from white lettering without any sound effects or cuts running through to the red lettering. This suggests that the letters resemble a person, when the white lettering appears they are alive , then the red lettering show them being killed.
We are first given an insight to the setting as a cake appears which suggests that they are in a house . Which are assured of this when we next see tomatoes being cut and a knife being removed from a stand. The blood which runs down the sink suggests to the audience that he has either cut himself or has injured someone else. There are many close ups used which restricts the audiences view but just shows important props in an effective way.
All of the props used are shown through close up, the effect of this is that the audience are told that these props are important to the film and make them question why?
As we have seen many times befor , the majority of the credits appear in a lare, white , bold font. This is so the audience are not given hints to any events which are going to happen in the film , but also everytime we see this font we associate it with the thriller genre.
Even if you had not heard of the well known thriller 'Psycho' the title would give the genre away. The cotinuous use of knives being shown through the opening sequence also suggests that this film is going to include death, blood and murders.
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