1) The opening titles feature shots of London buildings from a crane camera and zooming into a window showing an armchair with blood on it, introducing the film's dark and ominous tone. 2) Text credits are shown over shots of cogs and gears turning, with blood dripping among them, building intrigue around the mechanical elements. 3) Dramatic red text spells out the film's title "Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street" over images of a grinder and meat turning to blood, hinting at the story's violent acts and foreboding atmosphere through the use of disturbing visuals.

1. Description of action Timings Mise-en-scene Sound Camerawork Editing Typography
Titles stating ‘DreamWorks Pictures and
Warner Bros. Pictures presents’ appear
suddenly in the shot, before disappearing
suddenly again.
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00:00:03
A pitch black screen and then there is a crane
shot going down, leading into what looks like
green smoke, with thunder and lightening. A
title saying ‘A Parkes/MacDonald Production’
appears, and then disappears. It then follows
into a track to the right where it leads over
the chimneys and tops of the buildings in
London. Another title states ‘A Zanuck
Company Production’ and then disappears. It
then shows a roof with a window in it, and it
zooms in through the window, showing an
isolated armchair. A splat of blood then goes
on the window, followed by the title ‘A Tim
Burton Film’.
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Greeny dark
sky. Text.
Buildings of
London.
Armchair in an
empty room.
Blood.
Crane shot.
Pan.
Long cut.
A cut to a mid shot of a picture surrounded by
an old frame. It then starts to fade out. Text
appears saying ‘Johnny Depp’ and then
disappears. As there is a crane down another
bit of text saying ‘Helena Bonham Carter’
appears. As it disappears, the camera follows
a trail of blood dripping down the armchair. It
then flows down the arm of the chair, with
another text saying ‘Alan Rickman’. The
camera continues craning down to a lion’s
head carved into the arm. The blood then
drips on to a cog, and then it starts to spin.
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Photo frame.
Text. Blood.
Armchair. Low
key lighting.
Lion head.
Cogs.
Zoom out.
Pan down.
Mid shot.
High angle.
Long edit. Special
effects.
Sans serif.
There is a cut to a horizontal cog, which the
blood then drips down on to. Once the blood
has hit the cog a couple of times, it starts to
spin, leaving a further trail of blood. When the
cog stops, there is slight crane down and the
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Cogs and blood. Mid shot and
high angle.

2. blood runs off the screen.
There is a cut to a collection of cogs that are
all working together and spinning. The blood
flows between the cogs and then stick to
them, as there is contact.
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Long edit.
There is then a dolly camera, that moves
forward quickly between two cogs, leading
over floorboards, and to a trapdoor. The
trapdoor suddenly opens, plunging the
camera into total darkness.
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00:01:06
Cogs. Trapdoor.
Blood.
Dolly.
From a pitch-black screen, red letters drop
down on to the screen, the letters forming
‘Sweeney Todd: The demon of fleet street’.
The camera looks as if it is falling down
quickly, as there are certain patches of light.
As the text vanishes, the camera continues
with the movement, until it looks like the
camera has appeared out of a grinder, where
meat soon follows through the holes. The
camera continues to zoom out, and then a
crane follows the meat down. A text then
appears on the right hand side stating
‘Timothy Spall’. The meat then turns into
blood and drips down into various puddles of
blood, as the titles disappear. The camera
follows the trail around and the titles ‘and
Sacha Baron Cohen’ appear before the
camera follows the spiral.
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Red text, blood
illusion. Low
key lighting.
Grinder. Blood.
Zoom out.
Pan down.
Long edit.
There is then a cut to flames and the title
‘Casting by Susie Figgis’ appears almost
behind the flames before disappearing.
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00:01:31
Flames. Eerie
music.
Short edit.
The next shot is of 8 pies on a worktop. You
can see the flames flickering behind them,
and the camera zooms out and the title ‘Music
and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim’ appear. The
camera then zooms out quicker as it comes
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Worktop. Low
key lighting.
Pies. Open.
Sewer. Blood.
Pan. Long edit.

3. apparent that the pies are in an oven, as the
oven door shuts. Then the titles ‘Based on the
musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh
Wheeler. Originally staged by Harold Prince’
appear and disappear very quickly. There is
then a crane shot that is going slightly down
and to the left, where we see a sewer with
rats and a trail of blood running down the
sewer. Like the other title when it appears
quickly and disappears quickly, the same
happens with the text ‘From an adaptation by
Christopher Bond’. The crane shot then
continues along the sewer as another text
stating ‘Music supervised and conducted by
Paul Gemignani. Orchestrated by Jonathon
Tunick’ quickly comes and goes. The camera
then stops over a drain, which we see the
blood run in to.