Opening Credits Analysis

Pitch Perfect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6A6lc-0KaA

At the start of the opening credits we see sound waves moving to the beat of the music, which is a mash up of 212 by Azealia Banks and Bust a Move by Young MC. Then, it shows a close-up shot of a laptop screen on audio software. This suggests to the viewer that the movie has some kind of musical element to the film. It carries on showing a character editing the audio then it zooms out to show a girl sat with her laptop. This introduces the character to the viewer (Beca). An establishing shot is used to show the campus to make it clear to the viewer where the film is set. We next see an over the shoulder shot (behind Beca) showing the viewer outside the taxi. This shows what Beca can see out of the window and the shot makes you feel like the viewer is in the taxi with her. You then see the campus where you have just travelled to, showing the audience that is it start of term as it is busy with cars, people and luggage. A zoomed up shot of the back of the taxi and Beca walking towards the boot is shown, and her stopping the taxi driver to help her. This suggests to me that she is protective of her stuff and wants to take care of it herself. It ends with seeing Beca taking a deep breath. This fully introduces you to the character and her features. I also think that the deep breath represents her feeling nervous.

Sweeney Todd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKv6XlsJUjs

At the start of the clip it shows the usual production line but it has some kind of church organ music in the background. It sounds creepy and old which sets a spooky mood to the audience. It then moves onto the opening credits to the film and it shows a dark rainstorm with sound effects of lightning and thunder. This suggests that the setting of the film is going to be dark and gloomy.
You end up getting taken to a roof window of a building and a raindrop of blood drops down onto the glass window. This shows the viewer that the film will have elements of gore in it; the room (with a chair in), through the window, also sets the scene to the audience of the film.

The titles carry on following a bunch of mechanics and processes of making pies, which is computer animated with a trail of blood. This suggests to the audience that the film is going to involve blood and gore. The audience then sees the some kind of meat being minced, this suggest that the making of some type of meat is including in the film. It then leads to a bright fire blazing and showing some golden pies, this shows the audience that the pies are a main focus of the film. In the end, you just see the water in the sewers all red from the blood off the pies. I think that this shows the audience that is no ordinary pie and makes you intrigued to see what happens next, and what is actually in the pies.

Sky Fall:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IimY1KP5dR4

The opening credits for this film starts with the audience seeing James Bond sinking underwater and being grabbed by a mysterious person/ hand while Adele’s song ‘Sky fall’ is playing. This suggests to the audience that he is trying to be saved by this ‘mysterious’ person/ hand. James Bond then gets sucked into a sinking hole in the sand and, floats out into a different part of the sea with lots of cardboard targets of him. These cardboard targets have a shot of blood coming out of the left shoulder. This shows the audience where James Bond was shot. (Before the opening credits, there is a short piece of footage of James bond following a man in which he gets shot and falls into the water below him). We then go through the shot hole in the target to then see an unknown girl floating up the screen and we see a gun fall to the sea floor. The audience then sees an underwater graveyard with guns and knives falling from the sky, landing in the sand to represent graves of people. You then go under a grave into some red water. This suggests that we have gone under James Bonds grave and the red water represents the blood coming from his shot wound. We then float towards an eye, which is James Bond’s, and we zoom straight through his pupil. This suggests that the next part we see is going to be what Bond sees’ himself in his perspective.
James is stood on the sea floor with 4 shadows around him and he is shooting at them, showing the audience that he can handle four gunmen at a time. One then turns round at points the gun at Bond, which then leads you through a shot mark on a target where you see blood clouds moving through the water. This suggests the amount of blood James Bond has lost when he got shot. It ends with seeing a woman with a gun pointing at the audience. This shows you what James Bond saw last as he accidently got shot by is partner at work, who was a woman.