CORALINE (2009)
The opening type of this film is quite confusing, it doesn't use and stick to only one style of film opening...
The titles start of being shown on a blank screen, however the screen is not typically black or white, it is quite stylized in the sense that the background is themed as well as the font style and artwork to relate to the themes of the film. The frames fade from one to the next as they are shown, connoting mystery as to what will happen in the film. strange echoing music is played alongside a nursery rhyme and the sound of somebody humming, this non-diagetic sound creates a sinister
atmosphere automatically showing the viewer that this is a Thriller.
The style then moves in to a discrete title sequence and the effect of the previous sound and mis-en-scene etc is confirmed as we see a rag doll being dismantled. A number of extreme closeup shots of this action are used, this shows us exactly what is happening and also hints that what is happening now will have a strong relation to the story line.
The entire opening is a cut-in of the character who is altering the doll's hands. This creates suspicion about who they are, what they are doing and why we are not allowed to see them. Editing from perspective is used, it is shot as if we are seeing from the character altering the doll's point of view.
Dim lighting is used throughout the opening, this adds to the suspicion and suspense, creating a dark atmosphere and reinforcing the connotations of fear and sinister feelings that are already being created by the mis-en-sce,e, camera and sound.
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