HA1 Task 3 Analysis

Title and Credit sequences;


The girl with the Dragon Tattoo;

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo started off as  a crime novel by Stieg Larsson, it got made into a mystery thriller film in 2011. The sotry is about a journalist Mikael Blomkvist's who has been doing an investigation to find out what hapopened to a woman from a wealthy family, she had dissapeared 40 years before. In this he works with the help of a computer haker. All of the title and credit sequences is black and white, fire comes into it half way through. It represents the film a lot, for example the film includes a hacker and the title and credit sequence has a keyboard with blood going between the keys on it. The film includes violence so the blood represents that. There is a lot of blood throughout of it. There are also wires going into a woman who is full of blood, this is because the hacker and another person are trying to find her and they're using a computer to find information about her. The only text which is used throughout of this is the names of the main characters. It is all dark and grey scaled, this gives out a dark, scary and violence atmosphere to the audience. There is a lot of editing in this the grey scale and how it starts of slow 'the girl looks like she is spitting out blood in slow motion' and then towards the end it gets fasters as if it's getting more violent and the blood is coming out alot faster. Rotation has been used throughout all of the title and credit sequence of 'The girl with the dragon tattoo'. Some parts of it have also been sharpened for example when the body is moving it doesn't blur at all.


Final Destination 4;

A college student is watcing a speedway race and then suddenly has a premonition, in which a number of people die whena speedway collapses following a crash. He panics and persuades a variety of people to get out so they survive but then they all die in order different times and different places, but how they get killed is kind of the same way they die in the speedway race. The title and credit sequence is mainly x rays, all of the title and credit sequence has been edited to 'invert colours', doing this has gave it the x ray look. IT also includes blood, fire and car parts. The blood represents that there is blood involved in the movie and the fire is because at the start the car which crashes at the race sets on fire and kills someone. The car parts also is  becuase the car falls apart and flys everywhere. The only words used are the names of the main actors and the title of the film.

Scott Pilgrim


Like the other two title sequences it includes blood and black and white scenes. This shows it may bed scary, but unlike the other two is isn't as edited and been put in a certain way. Throughout the title and credit sequence you see people/ the actors where as the other two you don't. Eventhough it isn't as edited their are still parts which are edited such as when the hand gets put on the window, they could haved edited this many ways but they most likely would have got the footage before the hand print and once the hand print had been put there. This may show the audience the film includes ghosts or even something mysterious because they don't know how the hand print got their. Also all of the names of the actors and people whom are behind stage doing make up, directing etcc are in red as if it has been wrote in blood and also has a bit of a dripping look. It's not all the same colour throughout they use some black and white but also parts in normal colours. They've taken certain clips out of the film and included this into title and credit sequence.