Seven opening credits

For the opening credits in the film Seven we're introduced to the actors in the film, this is shown in a quite sketchy motion to tie in with the genre of the film which is horror/action, there is a lot of quick fade in and fade outs, the sound used is quite eary and you can tell it's horror, during the opening credits it's hard to deduce what the film is about as it's quite confusing, we're not introduced to any protaganists or antagonists at this point in time, there is a sign of disgust during the sequence where a person pulls a needle out of his finger, there is a wide array of close ups so we can see exactly what's going on, the colours used are quite dull. a lot of white, black and Grey, i have noticed that there is a lot of high angle shots to show the over the head prospective of the person which is effective.

The Texas chainsaw massacre opening sequence

The opening sequence for the Texas chainsaw massacre starts off in an eary manner, the colours used are dark and gloomy, here we're faced with our main antagonist, who is known as leather-face, the music played screams out horror and it's clear the very second the audience watches it, there is an over use of fade outs, this is a great way of creating suspense for the audience as they don't know what's coming next, there is a wide array of close ups, especially on leather-face so we can see the extent and feel of the antagonist. throughout the opening sequence we as the audience have many questions that need to be answered, a select few of these questions are; who is this character? why is he putting this wrap around his face? when leather-face burns a picture of a baby we can see the he's trouble this could be a significant object later on, maybe that was him when he was younger.

Opening sequence (The Shawshank redemption)

The Shawshank redemption starts of in a prison ground which is clear to the audience, Red (Morgan Freeman) introduces his character by a voice over, his character is described as a person that can get anything to anyone in the prison ground and with this in mind we as the audience can deduce that he's going to be a key character through the film and maybe even the protaganist, The inmates know when the sirens go off new inmates are coming into the prison, the camera shots used to show that new inmates are coming is a crane shot to show the extent of the prison, As the bus goes through the prison we as the audience only hear the violin play in a type of gloomy and sad way, setting the scene of the shawshank prison, Red introduces another character called Andy Dufresne and tells the audience the key background of him, the camera starts off at a high angle when in the bus and moves to Andy, we can clearly see his facial expressions as "emotionless" there is a great number of diegetic sound used in the opening of shawshank redemption, we can hear the roar of the inmates as they greet the new inmates with fear, and the group of friends with Red betting on the new inmates, as the new inmates walk inside Shawshank redemption it's in the style of a P.O.V to make it look more real for the audience's viewing experience. the colours used are dull, a lot of grey is used to set the darkness and feeling of the prison, and that's exactly what a prison should be.

Opening sequence (Children of Men)

The opening sequence i have choosen is Children of men, the colours used in the opening sequence are quite dull and boring, there is a lot of grey and black which suggests depression and upset, the emotions of the people suggest this too, we're introduced to our first character (Clive owen) who unlike everyone else in the cafe he isn't affected by the news story of "Baby" Diego Murdered, it's clear to us that it's set in the future as it says the boy died in 2027, we follow Clive owen out of the coffee shop in a handheld motion, if it was anything else like a birds eye view it wouldn't be as effective and this gives the sense of realism as if we're in the film, the emotion of the character is quite relaxed and he could be seen as depressed as he takes out a bottle of alcohol and puts it into his coffee, we are then faced with a loud explosion which seems to be from the coffee shop, this shocks the audience as the character (Clive owen) was just there at the shop, it adds a lot of questions to the audience, for example, why is there no children and why was there a exploision.