RESEARCH- Analyse conventions

Analysing conventions in a film opening.

 

 

I have chooes to analyse this title sequence because i think it is a very powerful opening to a film;

 

It starts off with a very loud thunder like sound what turns into a contunious pattern of a high pitched snear sound, because of the strange sounds used we can automatically asume that the film is going to be tense, there isnt any dialoge spoken in the title sequence which could infer that there is a suspicious case.

The titles are shown on a black background in white "child like" handrighting all over the place this comes up inbetween clips of the title sequence, the order the titles come up in are very obvious that the most known actors/actresses are shown first then follows other cast member and then the production team and other team members.

We get to see some insites into the film itself through some objects shown for example the hands, weapons and other suspicious items, we get the idea that a murder could be involved in the film but we cannot be 100% sure as we are'nt given too much information, many of the same item are shown more then once eg: the book this lets us know that the book must play an important part in the film.

There are also alot of fade in and outs of differtent objects which creates a sence of confusion between the audience and the film.