Editing Buffy the Vampire Slayer (section)

===Opening sequence===
The ''Buffy'' [[title sequence|opening sequence]] provides credits at the beginning of each episode, with the accompanying music performed by Californian rock band [[Nerf Herder]]. In the DVD commentary for the [[Welcome to the Hellmouth|first ''Buffy'' episode]], Whedon said his decision to go with Nerf Herder's theme was influenced by Hannigan, who had urged him to listen to the band's music.<ref>''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' first season DVD set. ''20th Century Fox'' (region 2, 2000), disc one.</ref> Nerf Herder later recorded a second version of the theme which was used for the opening titles from season 3 on. Janet Halfyard, in her essay "Music, Gender, and Identity in ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and ''Angel''", describes the opening:

{{blockquote|Firstly ... we have the sound of an [[organ (music)|organ]], accompanied by a [[wolf]]'s howl, with a visual image of a flickering night sky overlaid with unintelligible archaic script: the associations with both the [[silent film|silent era]] and films such as ''[[Nosferatu]]'' and with the conventions of the [[Hammer Film Productions|Hammer House of Horror]] and horror in general are unmistakable.<ref name="halfyard" />}}

But the theme quickly changes: "It removes itself from the sphere of 1960s and 70s horror by replaying the same motif, the organ now supplanted by an aggressively strummed electric guitar, relocating itself in modern youth culture ..."<ref name="halfyard">Halfyard, Janet K. "[http://slayageonline.com/essays/slayage4/halfyard.htm Love, Death, Curses and Reverses (in F minor): Music, Gender, and Identity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927234511/http://slayageonline.com/essays/slayage4/halfyard.htm |date=September 27, 2007 }}", ''[http://slayageonline.com/ Slayageonline.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090908103612/http://slayageonline.com/ |date=September 8, 2009 }}'' (December 2001).</ref> Halfyard describes sequences, in which the action and turbulence of adolescence are depicted, as the visual content of the opening credits, and which provide a [[postmodernism|postmodern]] twist on the horror genre.<ref name="halfyard" />