1. Opening Titles Analysis
The ABC's Of Death
The title starts with blood flowing through some sort of wide pipe, a
door into a room is opened and blood flows in through the
floorboards and through the door, washing away children's building
blocks. This sequence is done extremely well and heavily reinforces
the theme of death that is apparent throughout the film. The building
blocks that picture letters of the alphabet on them also add to the
relevance of the title sequence to the actual film. The sequence has
quite a simplistic nature to it with the use of only one room and a
singular event happening in the form of the blood flooding throughout
it, this was a very clever way of not spending a great deal of money
in order to make a sequence that is very effective and that is true to
the films purpose to shock and unsettle the audience. The titles come
up as the intro plays and starts with the production company's name,
Drafthouse and Timpson Films. The font is a fully capital and the
letters are not vertically centered and eventually fade out, the titles do
not stay on the screen for a long time and are slightly off in colour
illustrating a slight tinge of brown. The next titles to come up are the
associate producers, followed by the executive producer then the
produced by. Due to the concept of the film the directors are placed
last and all flash up in red at the same time with a grand total of 26
directors working on their own segment of the film.
Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd was presented by Warner Bros. and Dreamworks
pictures and this is the first title that appears. The titles appear in a
gothic style font and are white in colour on a black background, this
conveys the tone of the horror style film. The production company
follows suit and sticks to the white on dark colour scheme whilst
keeping the gothic font. The actors names then appear whilst the
opening sequence plays on, sticking with the dark theme that is
consistent throughout. The music that is playing really adds to the
way the names are presented and completely and utterly reinforces
the horror mood and tone. The music intensifies towards the end of
the title sequence and ends with the directors title again white on
dark text.