The document summarizes and analyzes various images from the opening credits of the television show "True Blood". In three sentences: The first image shows a boy with strawberries around his mouth, ominously foreshadowing vampires drinking blood later in the show. A billboard mentions God, implying the location is highly religious and wants to ward off vampires. Additional images show people dancing erotically at a club to hint at sexual themes, a man leaning on a woman's neck like a vampire would bite, and an alligator and swamp to indicate the show is set in the deep south of Central America.

1. True Blood Intro
By Will Yeates

3. • In this image we see a young boy with
strawberries around his mouth, being a show
about vampires this image ominously
foreshadows later on in the show when the
actual vampires show up and do actually start to
drink other people’s blood. What makes this
image all the more shocking is that it is a
child, we would normally associate a child with
innocence however by having the child with the
blood like substance all over his face it makes the
image we see all the more ominous.

5. • In this image we see a billboard with God
mentioned, thus implying that the location in
which this is set is a highly religious place as it
has put up signs around the town to ward off
whatever it is that their religion disagrees with
in this case the vampires.

7. • This image of the two people dancing in the
club is an early indicator that sex and
eroticism will have a place in the drama. We
can see by the woman leaning suggestively on
the man implies that the theme of eroticism
will run through out the show. Also this hints
to us that it is a show about vampires by the
way the man is leaning into the woman’s neck
is much like how a vampire leans in to bite
into the neck to drink the blood.

9. • This image here of the alligator and the
swamp land implies to us where the location
of this drama will be. We can guess that this
drama will be set somewhere in the deep
south of Central America, guessing this from
the swamp land and the various American
symbols.

10. • Even though this is a television show it still
uses may techniques which films use to give
us the full effect desired to display to us the
image the creators of True Blood wanted us to
understand. As well as helping to establish
mood, tone and atmosphere.