Opening Sequence Analysis - Pia

Analysis of: Final Destination 3.



Mis-en-scene: The Mise-en-scene for the title sequence is generally dark with the bright lights of the fair ground and its rides. It has a Tarot Puppet type machine, which would tell your future and points to the death card, this future telling relates to the film as in each Final Destination film the main character in it would have a premintion at the start of the film showing various other characters and how they should have died and which order, of course things dont go to plan and most of the characters get off the ride, also in this 3rd Final Destination film this fortune telling is also later on shown in the photos the main characters, giving hints as to how they would die.
This is also shown in the titles as there are circus pictures relating to their deaths, ie. a girl with nails in her head & two women being electricuted.
In the Opening Titles there is also switched to a pinball which dodges the holes Luck & Fate, Ending up in the hole death.

Sound: The sound in the sequence is an ery music, with Screams getting louder throughout the sequence, creating a tension.

Camerawork: There are many different uses of camerawork in this sequence; Long shots, low angles, Dollys, Tilts, Pans, Close ups, Extreme close-ups & an Extreme long shot. The use of the low angle on one of the rides made it seem scary and menacing, this angle is similar to the way which anyone standing below waiting for the ride would see anyway, and this builds fear before they would go on the ride, so also builds up this fear in the viewer.

Editing: Disolved/faded tiltles & transitions, mirrored spinning ride, reflected/flipped ride & the horses from the carosel in the mirror had been sped up to build fear.

Sorry, i should have posted this before.