Film Opening Analysis

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011 - crime, drama, mystery, thriller)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was released in 2011 by Columbia Pictures.
I believe genre is shown in a good way in this film opening as you can tell the genre, but it's not overly obvious and in your face. The music, flashing images and fast paced opening clip indicated to me that the film is a dark mystery thriller.
The narrative of the film is not given away, but the opening does give a sense as to whats to come in the film. This opening sequence allows the audience to guess the narrative, as a lot is shown in the clip, but you can't tell what is relevant or not, it poses more questions than it does give answers.
Characters are not revealed in the usual way, the faces of the main male and female characters can be seen if you look carefully, but they are shown as robot like creatures, amongst the quick flashes cuts. this gives connotations to the audience that the characters could be similar to robots in the way they work and act.
The opening sequence of this film conveys to the audience via the sound track and pictures that it has a dark, intense and sinister atmosphere. The use of colours also convey this, with the use of only plain, dull colours such as black, grey and white until the fire is introduced.
The titles in this opening piece are quite small so they are not intrusive at all of the powerful action happening along side them, but they are bigger enough to read. I find with this opening, that it is easy to forget that the titles are even there as you become engrossed in the peculiar scene. The writing is in a readable font, but it's a font that has been used to suit the film and it's genre, the writing has connotations of power and fear.
There is a music track that runs throughout the film opening. The music track that starts out quite quiet and slow, builds up quickly, uses a constant powerful beat and high pitch vocals to create an intense and intriguing atmosphere.