Sweeney Todd - Title sequence by Richard Morrison...

Title Sequence finishes at approx 2.20 minutes.



The title sequence begins quite dark, it is set in the evening and the weather is quite bleak and raining, connoting the idea of something quite sinister or maybe evening representing the mood of one of the characters; run down and depressed. Blood then drips onto the window, as if the water turned into blood, giving the audience an idea that the film is quite dark and serious, shows that the film could be the genre of a horror or thriller. The old silhouette of a lady’s face with blood dripping down the outline and then running down the furniture connotes the idea that the film involves death or murder. Then the blood runs down onto a mechanism which makes the cogs turn, and then the blood gets in between the cogs meaning that the blood in making it work. It could be a connotation of the idea that there is a method to the way in which everything is working. The music starts quite slow and quiet, and then speeds up; when the name of the film is shown the music becomes louder and increases in speed. After, the screen turns into a clip which includes a mince maker, which connotes the idea of cooking meat. The meat then turns into more blood, the images movement becomes faster, maybe representing that someone or something is speeding up. Flames are then shown in the title sequence, connoting the thought of something burning or maybe cooking. The shot follows into pies, which the flame is still linked to in the background, representing meat pies cooking; blood is dripping down from the shelf in which the meat pies are positioned on; with the music still increasing even more in speed connoting something is getting faster, someone having to do something in a rush. The furnace in which the meat pies are being cooked in is then shut, the audience are able to see if looking closely that there are handprints on the door made from blood, being a connotation that this film could be to do with murder. Camera shot moves to a long shot image of an underground scene, blood running through the chambers into the sewage system, representing the idea of something needing to be cleaned, maybe showing something needs to be hidden. The music gets faster yet again during this clip, which could connote that the idea of something needing to be cleaned needs to be done fast. Scene then follows the blood running through the water supplies, the setting changes, a ship immerses through the fog and the film begins.