Title Sequence Analysis (Notes)


Mission Impossible (JJ Abrahms, 2011):

-Low key lighting - conventional for spy sub-genre
-Following spark - involves audience in scenario
-City and underground setting - conventional for spy sub-genre
-Fast paced
-Spy iconography - fast cars, weaponry, dynamite/explosions


Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron, 2006):
-Dramatic music - establishes drama genre
-Police - suggests violence and anarchy
-Dystopia setting


Napoleon Dynamite(Jared Hess, 2004):
-70s feel
-Comedic
-School setting - lunch, books, geeky
-America
-Typewriter font