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.