Tuesday 5 February 2013

The Dark Knight Rises

The opening credits for The Dark Knight Rises (2012).

00:10 - Warner Bros.
00:25 - Legendary Pictures
00:40 - DC Comics
00:42 - Syncopy
00:58 - Christopher Nolan (Director)
01:07 - The Dark Knight Rises
01:10 - Christian Bale
01:13 - Michael Caine
01:16 - Gray Oldman
01:20 - Anne Hathaway
01:23 - Tom Hardy
01:26 - Joseph Gordon-Levitt
01:29 - Marion Cotillard
01:32 - Morgan Freeman
01:56 - Christopher & Jonathan Nolan (Screenplay By)
02:00 - David S. Goyer & Christopher Nolan (Story By)
02:02 - Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan, Kevin De La Noy, Thomas Tull (Executive Producers)
02:20 - Christopher Nolan (Directed By)
02:30 - End

The genre is established very quickly in the sequence as an action/triller. This is gathered from the non- diagetic music, as it is recognisable from the previous films and has a superhero vibe about it, which creates suspense. The tempo is also fast paced to build tension to the start of the movie.  After the Production and Distribution companies are credited the frames are very quick paced giving the sequence more of a thriller feel to it. The sequence does not give a great amount of focus on the narrative as the editing is quick. There is but a few seconds between frames leaving the audience confused. The quick flashes in frames imitate some sort of top secret file being destroyed; this suggests that maybe the audience shouldn't be seeing this. Whoever it is pouring over these files appear to be in a rush, keep the audience on the edge of their seats. Everything in the sequence is old fashioned: like the photographs, typography and the locations appears to be outside as the files are destructed with ice and water making. This gives the setting a sense of bring cold. The credits twitch and flicker in and out of shots to create a disjointed atmosphere this is done because it is the third film in the Christopher Nolan Trilogy.

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