Tuesday, 29 January 2013

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The opening titles of the 2011 film, 'The girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is very effective in capturing the audience within the first two and a half minutes. The use of the non-digetic theme music of a cover of 'Immigrant Song' really helps to keep the audience in suspense of what is going to happen within the film. The music doesnt hold back it starts incredibly suddenly and loud, this creates a lot of tension from the very beginning. By the end of the first two minutes the music is extremely loud and builds so much tension that it prevents the audience from wanting to look away incase they miss something vital within the storyline. The colours that are used in this opening titles are all dark and dull with no bright colours what so ever so this not only implies that something dark and creepy is going to happen in the film but it also creates a dark and gloomy atmosphere.

Throughout this clip there is blood being splattered and taking the main attention from the audience. The connotations of blood is death, fear and violence, this gives the audience a sense of imagination with what is going to happen in the film later on, it could be foreshadowing. There is also a shot of water and droplets and the connotations of these is drowning, mystery and fear of the unknown. This being linked with the connotations of the close-up of hands is getting hold of something may be even not letting it go, this could fear the audience of what is going to be held. The extreme close-up of the eye is that you are being watched may be without even knowing therefore this frightens the audience and sets a chilling atmosphere for the rest of the film. The extreme close-up of Lips is that there may be romance in the film so the lips are effective of telling a story within the first two minute.

There is a mid shot of a dragon surrounded by fire, this links in with the title of the film and what the audience assumed and thought what the film would be about so this would be no surprise to the audience.  The editing of the opening titles for The girl with The Dragon Tattoo uses a lot of dissolves and swipe and cuts to move in quickly and easily to let the opening flow to each vital point. It moves on quickly and fast paced so suddenly that the audience are in suspense because they dont have a clue of what is going to happen next.  There is a flower close-up and it gives the audience a sense of new life and may be a happy ending howver the flower then dies so the audience assume that now represents death and had that meaning all along. These opening titles are effective in making the audience tense of what is going to happen in the film.

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