ART OF THE TITLE

Mindhunter/

This title sequence successfully creates a mysterious and earie beginning to the film. It focuses primarily on the setting-up of the old-fashioned microphone. The audience isn’t given any reassurance during this scene. To add to the confusion and fear there are several flashes of gory images that seem to look like corpses, this adds to the feeling of confusion and fear. The hard cuts to and from the gory images makes it so quick that the audience aren't even able to process what they are looking at, but able to make out a gory image. This then leave the viewer to decipher the horrid message itself that this isn't just the setting up of the microphone but something much darker linked to it. To then round up there is slow scary music which is purposely out of time. What this does to the sequence is, emphasise what we are seeing and has a major influence on how the viewer is feeling.

The way this sequence is successful is, by creating this strange and confusing start, this will make the viewer want to watch on to get an explanation. The two main questions I had in my head while watching this was, what is the microphones use, it must be important to be at the beginning for such a length of time. My second thought was, what are these corpses? Something dark is clearly happening and for the answers to be unlocked I must watch on and decipher the messages ahead.

Between the flash shots of the corpse the camera zooms in and out very quickly, even though this isn’t very noticeable, it adds to the subject of confusion.