Opening Title Sequence

69 year 0ld American director Joe Dante is a famous director, editor and actor known for many films like The Gremlins

(1/2), The Howling, Burying The Ex and Piranha.He began his working career for Roger Corman. He then

worked as an editor for Grand Theft Auto after co-directing Hollywood Boulevard along with Allan Arkush. His next

feature film was Piranha with Roger Corman, then invited John Sales to re-write the story of The Howling.

In 1978, Dante won the Saturn award for Best Editing with Mark Goldblatt then in 1984, Dante won the Saturn award for

Best Director.

Joe Dante

Dante directed the film The Hole 3D in 2012, the film began filming in 3D in 2008.

The film received positive reviews. In 2009, it was awarded the Premio Persol at the Venice Film Festival.

Dante directed the film The Hole 3D in 2012, the film began filming in 3D in 2008.

The new award was for the "3-D feature deemed the most creative among those produced globally between September

2008 and August 2009."

The Hole

One of the main characters of the film are Chris Massoglia as Dane

Thompson. Chris starting acting when he was 10 years old as Chris Kelly

(also known as Chris J. Kelly)He began his role in a television program Law and Order: Criminal Intend. In the

same year he was considered for the role of Sean in Nicole Kidman's film, Birth. Chris didn’t receive many good reports on his acting, for example The

Boston Globe called his acting “too bland to deliver”. But in 2009 after his

movie The Hole, The Hollywood Reporter called him a “young Zac Efron…who ably carries the film.”

Another main character of the film was actress Haley Bennett as Julie Campbell. In 2007, she made her first film debut acting as the pop

singer Cora Corman in the romantic comedy Music and

Lyrics. Haley mainly focuses on musicals than the genre of horror may be something quite different

for her.

CHRIS MASSOGLIA HALEY BENNETT

MAIN CHARACTERS

Introduction to main characters

Chris Massoglia was introduced as an average teenage boy who stereotypically wears dark clothes and has a not-so-happy slogan “killers” on his shirt. Because he’s moving into a new home, he isn’t in the best of moods as he later on tells his mum that he wants to see his friends. He isn’t pleased with the place so he is looking around in disgust. We instantly get a vibe off him as a quite compressed person who isn’t interested in many things.Haley Bennett is introduced as a quiet teenage girl who possibly doesn’t speak much, maybe shy. She sits in a posh looking area at he front of her house reading a book which she looks quite focused on. We get a vibe off her as a quiet , kind of held together, smart girl.

The time isn’t really shown in the film except for the car used by the mum that shows it isn’t a modern time, and the use of old phones shows that it was a time where the IPhones

may not be in style. The place looks like an average American neighborhood , the

fact that it’s a sunny day contrasts with the dark blackness that we saw right before. This could contrast and show the

actors point as what they thought would have been an average area with nothing wrong, it could suddenly

change.

Indication of time and place

The mood and tone at the beginning of the movie isn’t really shown but we could use the contrast of the beginning

black screen and how it quickly changed into a bright day, which could foreshadow that when things get really bad

hope struck in and changes the situation

Mood and tone

The title appears by starting with a black screen then slow zooming out from the letter O, then quick zooming out to

show the whole title in big white capitalized font. Surrounding the title there’s a cloud of purple/whitish

smoke. This whole bit can represent the movie, as the hole was hidden at first (black screen) then when found it was

big and bold and just a normal hole (white font could represent the innocence) then when opened the evil became

presence (the smoke cloud).

title

The film doesn’t follow the conventions of an opening title sequence as it doesn’t have opening credits. This may be

cause Dante may want to jump straight into the film rather than lose the audiences attention during the credits, so he

could keep them interested by straight away starting the film.

conventions