Title Research: Get Out

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What titles are displayed during the opening sequences?
They display the production company and the name of the person who created the film, and then the title of
the film. They then show the actor's names, then the person who casted them, and then the music supervisor
and who created the music. It then showed the costume designer, the editor, the production designer, the
photography director, the co-producers, and the executive producers. Finally, it showed the producers and
the writer and director.
    What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
The titles are usually in the center of the shot, ensuring that the backgrounds are easily visible. The film ensures that we can see the street as someone is packing things in their trunk, the woods as a car is driving past, and unsettling absurdist pictures. It also shows the room where the paintings are in, a person shaving, another person buying bakery sweets and riding up an elevator to the room where the pictures are, a person reviewing other unsettling pictures, and finally the two characters meeting and kissing.
    How does the film establish a feeling of the genre from the outset?
The film's use of abstract and seemingly unrelated images creates an unsettling feeling, especially the abstract black and white photos. The woods and the person packing their car in the dark also contribute to this uneasiness because they are haunting, yet seemingly unconnected, so we do not get instant gratification on what's really going on, making us feel unsettled.

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