Panic Room Analysis - Karl

Title sequence analysis - Panic Room

For my title sequence analysis I chose the film ‘Panic Room’. In this title sequence you see an interesting use of typography. The titles appear on the buildings and the camera pans over them. This is effective as it doesn’t draw your attention the names straight away and makes you focus on the city setting. Also in this sequence the music used is deep and orchestral. This builds tension and encourages the viewers into the sequence. The music is quite low and not too much attention is drawn to it. This allows the actual titles to take most of the attention. The camera work used in the sequence draws most of the attention the buildings in the background which gives the viewer a sense of where the upcoming movie is going to be set (in a city). Also apart from the buildings there isn’t a lot of action in this title sequence this leaves the viewer wondering what is going to happen. This slow start contradicts with the title of the film, ‘Panic Room’ because from the title you would expect a exciting, fast opening but instead you have the opposite.