Title Sequence

The title consists of the following information:

• The title of the film (DEXTER)
• The names of the actors/actresses
• The names of the individuals in the production team

The title sequence for ‘Dexter’ clearly indicates a film based under a Psychological/ Horror Thriller. The layout of the different pictures within the image represents a secretive structure which attracts the audience’s attention and engages them to watch the film. The small prints of the different images makes the title seem complicated but serious which therefore helps to relate the film to its original genre; a Thriller.

The caps lock effect on the font connotes a stronger and a bolder style which outlines the figure of the title in a clearer way and emphasis on the letters also by using the colours red, white and yellow to present this effectively. This title sequence also helps to attract more of a male audience rather than a female scene as the pictures are rather disturbing and anti-feminine. The titles appear in different times and having various placing in the frame makes the whole sequence a more interesting and a suspicious piece. The names of the actors are presented in an attractive way being noticed almost the same quality as the pictures printed in the background, which therefore helps the audience to understand each actor has an important role within a particular scene and event during the film.

Suspense is cleverly exposed in this type of title sequence. The pictures within the image is not quite obvious which therefore leaves the audience in a mysterious situation that places thoughts about what type of storyline would be dressed in the film to support the whole sequence.

This type of title sequence can be classified as being very extraordinary in a way where it replaces reality into curiosity for example, in the seventh picture where the inside of an orange is stuffed with bleeding flesh and is rubbed against a sharp surface. The same way where the fifth picture questions if the rapidly torn dented scratches are on human flesh or on animal meat. The first picture however is a spider crawling on a mans arm, using extreme close-up to inform the audience in what it is. This picture could be placed first to the reason where it is designed to create a feeling of goose-bumps adrenalin around the body before the film begins. The last picture being a man having an emotion vulgarly displayed on his face creates a troubled tension that can possibly indicate the film should be watched intently until the last scene. The last scene can be described as the main section of the film because the name of the writer Clyde Phillips is presented to be the final actor in the sequence.

Many close-ups and extreme close-ups are used within this image to emphasise the meaning and the short story of each picture. Basic information is fed to the audience by this way, with the art of not spoiling the spell of the film.

This title appealed to me because it has an extremely psychotic storyboard presentation, leaving the audience distinctly worried about the abnormal shots in the pictures which therefore makes the title not clearly perceived in mind and insists on wanting to watch it.