Research on 'The Haunting of Connecticut'.

The Haunting in Connecticut;


Title Sequence;
0:00-0:35  Production Company logo's and sequences
0:35           Title 'Lionsgate and Cold circle films present'
0:37           Various other titles all in the same font
0:45           Old fashioned picture of a mid shot of a family dressed smartly
0:47           Old fashioned picture of a mid shot of two young girls
0:50           Flashed picture of an extreme close up of scissors (red filter)
0:51           Blood dripping from a table (red filter)
0:53           Old fashioned picture of children
0:57           Old fashioned picture of an old woman
0:59           Various quick flashes of extreme close ups of surgery
1:01           Mid shot of the same young girls
1:03           Enlarged photo of the family, this time shown to be next to a corpse
1:05           Close up corpses face
1:07           Extreme close up of a different corpse's eyes being shut
1:09           Enlarged photo of the old woman, this time shown to be next to a corpse
1:10           Long shot of two different corpses, then flashes to a close up
1:13           More various shots of surgery
1:15           Long shot of a middle aged couple next to a corpse
1:19           Blood running out of a pipe down a drain
1:20           Long shot of a corpse on a bed holding a dead baby
1:26           Long shot zoom of two boys, one appears to be asleep/dead
1:30           More camera shots of blood dripping from a table
1:30-1:35 Black screen
1:36          Title of the film 'Haunting in Connecticut
1:45          Title 'Based on a True Story'

The title sequence of The Haunting in Connecticut is very foreboding towards the rest of the film. It shows many different photographs of different aged people standing or sitting next to corpses in coffins, this gives a strong connotation towards death and misery, which sets the mood and tone for the rest of the film. From seeing this, the audience will now know that the main feature throughout the film is death, and the outcomes that come from it. Another main feature of the title sequence is surgery, and the connotations that it has. This, like the photographs of death, provide foreboding into what's going to happen in the film.

We could use some of the ideas in this title sequence, we could use images that would provide a strong connotation and foreboding to what would happen in the rest of our film, this would give the audience a slight idea into what the film is about and will encourage them to watch more, much like the title sequence in 'The Haunting in Connecticut'.

The Haunting in Connecticut was released in 2009 and was displayed on 2732 screens across america and made $23,004,765 on its opening weekend, and grossed $55,325,526 overall. It's about a family who move into a new house nearer a hospital, only to discover that the house has a curse on it and is haunted by its past. This is very similar to what our plans for our film is going to be, a family moving into a new house.