Friday, 20 March 2015

Opening Thriller Sequence Research: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcp9Ysi75f0


The sequence starts with a series of flashing clips and a fast paced intro on the soundtrack. The credits last for longer than the flashing clips, allowing us as the viewer more time to read them, though not distracting from the nature of the opening. The beginning clips are very closely cut together, about one cut every second, which creates a sense of distortion at first, though as the opening continues the things in the clips are slowly revealed further.

The name of the film appears after the names of people we would assume to be the male and female lead. The font is similarly coloured to the rest of the opening so far - grey and black, which creates quite a sinister mood.
The title is then engulfed by what appears to be water, almost as quickly as it appeared to begin with. 



The credits appear in a different font altogether, and are in white so contrast well with the background. They mostly appear off-centred and over a 'dead' part of the frame where nothing is happening to draw your attention to. 

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