The title sequences of Se7en, Panic Room, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo use visuals and music to set the tone and build anticipation for each film. Se7en's sequence uses sounds of thunder, drums, and screeching to create an uneasy atmosphere. Panic Room's titles focus on the aesthetics of the city skyline and use music to convey the thriller genre. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opens with the song "Immigrant Song" to set a mysterious, fast-paced tone, and uses dark colors, fire, and quick cuts between odd images to intrigue viewers about the film's events.

1. Title Sequences
A title sequence is the way in which films or
TV programs present their film title, key
production and cast members. They often
implement interesting conceptual visuals and
sounds. They usually include the text of the
opening credits, and helps set the scene and
tone of the program/film. It may consist of live
action, animation, music, still images, and/or
graphics.

2. Se7en
To start of the sequence there is a loud bang, similarly to the sound of thunder. This is used to give an instant hint
to the audience that the film in hand is one of a tense composition. A drum is played during the course of the
sequence and although at times it is not as apparent, it is continuously followed by a screeching noise. 33 seconds
into the sequence a hand is writing into a notebook, however the lettering is blurred so we are unable to see what
is being written, but just by the sound effect of the screeching of the pen being pushed down the character is
represented clearly. It is obvious for whatever reason they are heated, irritated and strong-minded with what they
are trying to succeed. Moving further on in the sequence a number of diverse and random noises are put in place,
this gives off an uneasy atmosphere to the audience and although they feel out of place and on edge they still want
to watch on to unravel the story, meaning the director has effectively created narrative enigma through the
assortment of the music and sound effects. At 1:36 the speed and the volume of the music increases, the drum bang
is now more noticeable, and the audience’s expectation of a sudden jump isn’t fulfilled, which could create
confusion. This pace is followed through until 2:01 where we eventually hear someone speak, “you can be closer to
God” is the last thing we hear of the opening sequence, and this again creates anticipation and leaves unanswered
questions from the audience.

3. Panic Room
The introduction is very light on any narrative structure, focusing more on aesthetics for the title sequence. The titles end with a shot of two women
walking down a busy street whilst discussing the properties of a house, whilst the music sets the tone of the film as a tense thriller and the typography
of the titles set over the skyline of New York suggest that it’s a very stylish film with regards to cinematography and editing. The titles of the sequence
are set out against New York skyscrapers giving the impression that the narrative is wide reaching and set on a large scale, something typical of the
thriller genre. Furthermore, silver block capitals stand out on some buildings and are less noticeable on others which could be a suggestion that film is
going to have standout moments amongst the comparatively tame build up of the plot which is technique used by many films in the thriller genre. The
actors are dressed in a very business oriented fashion, wearing a formal wear which sets the tone of a busy and serious atmosphere. It involves large
buildings that indicate that the film is based around office like environments. It is a mature setting as it considers its target audience. There are a lot of
dramatic longshots of skyscrapers used to show the scale of the city. Natural lighting used to show a seemingly normal scene in a bustling city and there
are many moving shots being used to move from one building to another. Scene transitions are mainly just cuts to different shots of skyscrapers with no
use of dissolves, wipes or fades. The titles are imposed over the building which is a stylistic choice used in post production editing. The tense music that
is typical of the thriller genre to tell the audience that there is going to be action sequences and to set the tone of the film. Lastly, to set the tone of the
film without introducing the main characters and providing aesthetically pleasing titles.

4. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The ‘Immigrant Song’ grabs the audience attention straight away as soon as the ‘The girl with dragon tattoo’ opens. This sound is continuous and very
beauty which denotes it is a thriller genre with a touch of rock music which helps support the image of tattoos.
The soundtrack is very mysterious and urges individuals to keep watching further and the soundtrack intensifies itself making it very fast pace and racy
suggesting that it is a non-digetic soundtrack.
Whilst the soundtrack is playing the objects at the background move according to the pace of the song, this keeps the audience glued and interested into
the film as their mind will wonder what will happen next in the film. The jet black metallic colour that is used throughout the beginning sequel suggests
evil, suffering and a dark-side to the film. In some sense, it gives the film a very mysterious look. The colour has been used effectively with objects and
liquid is shown to be bleeding out of a woman's mouth this is very effective and makes the audience want to think what this could mean further down
the film. Also the lighting that is used and yellow/ gold colours are used to show fire. The comparison between dark black colours to fire is a very clever
tool to grab the audience attention suggesting danger and death. Also in the opening there is a skeleton which portrays death leaves the audience to
think that ‘death’ has a huge role in the film. In the opening scene there a different cuts of different images constantly, this suggesting that the film is
going to be quick and unusual things would happen due the images being quite odd and well as baffling. Within each image there is 1-2 second gap
before it moves on to the next image this is effective because it does not give away the film but gives hint in what the film will contain. For example,
when a bunch of USB’s go into the character's brain we can assume that a lot of technology is going to be used and may have something to do with a
computer. There are fast movements of objects and the camera focus and angle are very effective whereby it has short and long durations of objects to
show importance to certain things in the film.