Sweeney Todd title sequence

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 horror musical film directed by Tim Burton. It is an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning 1979 musical. It re-tells the Victorian melodramatic tale of Sweeney Todd, an English barber and serial killer who murders his customers with a straight razor and, with the help of his accomplice, Mrs Lovett, processes their corpses into meat pies.

The title sequence starts out with the 'Dream Works' title opening which hasn't been changed to fit the film, although it does not need to be changed to fit the genre of the film as the music fits it.
The opening music is a loud organ playing that sounds as if all the notes are being hit, this helps to grab the attention of the audience and tells them the film is starting, it then begins to play an actual song that sounds like it should be played at a funeral, this helps to express the genre of the film and builds tension for when the film starts.

When 'Dream works' titles finish, the organ finishes playing and a quite noise replaces the organ, a haunting noise that sounds like violins in the back ground, on top of that the next scene that comes up is of a dark raining sky and you can here thunder in the back ground, this helps to give the film a mysterious atmosphere as the audience try to work out where it is, you then start to see chimneys and smoke, this is when the titles of the people that were involved in the film begin to appear.
The text is in white so it stands out against the dark back ground, and is in an old fashioned victorian text, so it fits with the era of the film, the writing also looks like skeleton bones which fits in with the main part of the film which is death.

As the film carries on and the titles, objects appear that are going to be see through out the film such as a bolts and screws that are covered in blood and even a stream of blood, this makes the film look much more darker and gloomier, as the red contrasts with the dark back ground.

When the title of the film appear in bold red against the black back ground, the music increases and picks up its pace and the writing is the only thing on the screen, this makes it stand out and get the audience more excited for it as the title of the film builds the tension and excitement of the film, and makes it dramatic as if the title is the grand opening of the film.
After the name of the title is shown the objects shown become much faster and more intense such as meat being grinned through a machine and the meat falling out a and the screen switching to more blood.

The titles then finish with the director who is Tim Burton, this is because all his films are similar in that they are all dark and the cast members are usually Johnny Depp which helps to give away who the film was directed by anyways.