'The girl with the dragon tattoo'

Tittle sequence

The first thing you notice about the tittle sequences of “The girl with the dragon tattoo” is the fast pace, exciting music and the dark, minimal theme. The non-diegetic sound of the music in the background of a black empty frame, gives a sense of mystery to the viewer. This results into them being gripped and instantly immersed into what is about to happen. As the viewer watches the black screen and listens to the pulsating music, the tittles start to fade in and out of the frame, according the beats of the music. This rhythmic form of editing creates the tension needed to go along with the music.  

Then around 7 seconds into the opening, glimpses of what the film is about. The music is still playing and the edit is still set out in a rhythmic way. Shots and images are shown for less than a second but it is long enough for the viewer to roughly tell what it is. One of those shots is a deep black leather or scale material. This shows that it could be a dragon’s skin or that the darkness is a metaphor for something deeper in the movie. Then water or liquid, dripping down on the material, this tells the viewer that liquid has a big part in the film.

Then as the title sequence starts to pick up the pace, the sea of black liquid starts to consume and take over title sequence. Every shot has the liquid incorporated in it from 10 seconds in. You also see it dripping down from a blade, but the blame has a dragon design on the side of it, this then results in to the blade or sharp objects being a big part in this movie. This implies to the viewers that the film is going to be an action due to the knives. Then the tittle of the film gets covered in this black liquid that takes the viewers attention.

To conclude, this tittle sequences is a good tittle sequence because it gives the viewers hints of what the film is about, but never the full story. I think we could use ideas from this sequence, such as the minimal take on it, and incorporate it to our film. 

Elizabeth's wedding dress: the hidden meaning behind

For Elizabeths wedding dress we went for a classic style: in terms of embroidery and how much detailing we would initially want. Due to low funds for the production of the film we were unable to produce an actual wedding dress,therefore i used an old dress that I had previously bought.  This fitted the initial ideal image that would represent Elizabeths characters personality, body size and style. The floral embroidery is to signify Elizabeths 'down to earth' personality but to also represent her love for nature. Nature is a key convention within the film as it is to connote how as the earth re-generates and reproduces such natural beauty in times of chronic/acute disruption, the human body is also like it. Through the supposed 'loss' of Elizabeth, Edward is in a state of chronic pain, and results in taking up alcohol as a release for his stress but he some how manages to see the light.