Opening Sequence Research:Breaking Dawn

It is evident in this opening sequence that colour and music is used to promote the theme of love and war. Red and white are used to stimulate juxtaposition between power and natural elements. Red is a colour used to promote love and war, white being purity. All themes present in the movie and therefore, this applies this in the opening credits. The nature used in the piece sets the scene giving an audience a sense of location. The credits used blend and dissolve between the actors names. This finishes with the ECU of the eyes being red with pale white skin, this shows continuity between the credits and the film.

The music intensity sets the mood and tone of the piece, it builds and changes in emotion. Therefore, the audience are aware of the emotions to come. When the credits of the antagonists are shown the musics pitch decreases and the speed increases. However, the music is mostly joyful and uplifting, this would suit the target age group for the movie. The music evidently shows the clear theme of passion. We will use the concept of the piano background music to show the emotion behind the story. It makes the audience aware of the genre and tone of the piece. However, in our piece with use minors instead of majors to set a more depressing tone to reflect our lead character.