Friday, 20 March 2015

Opening Thriller Sequence Research: Panic Room


Panic room 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sqIclb4qsJI



In the Panic Room opening sequence, the credits appear almost to infiltrate their surroundings. For example, here Jared Leto's name is only just visible against the background that it blends in with.

The names also stay static on the screen, so they do not move from the position we originally see them in, as if the image was a still. However, we know it is not as here for example we can see the traffic moving in the bottom left hand corner.


The names themselves are positioned for the most part in the centre of the screen, with some being revealed as the camera pans and some being wholly visible straight away. 
Interestingly, the title of the film appears in the same font as the credits, and is positioned in the middle of the title sequence, in amongst the credits. As the title appears, the music changes to become more fast paced and threatening. A noise that is similar to that of a ticking clock is also introduced which creates the impression that time could be important in the film in the sense that it could be running out for one of the characters. 

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