The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

From what I can see from the opening sequence, I would say that The Girl With The Dragon tattoo must be an Action. This is because in the opening, we are shown guns, this connotes violence. The use of black makes it look sinister and evil, which is sometimes associated with violence. Black has connotations of death.

I think the Narrative starts off by introducing the main characters, but not obviously. The use of oil going over spreading over multiple things may signify oil. The oil may belong to a car. If there is fast paced music, then there could be a car chase that occurs later on in the film. The way the oil corrupts the laptop and wires could indicate that there is some form of hacking that happens in the film.

We are introduced to 2 main characters in the opening. However, you cannot make out their exact features as special effects have been used over their actual selves. This could connote that they have something to hide. One of them appears to be male and one appears to be female. Going against stereotypes, the female was helping the male to untangle himself from the wires.

The atmosphere within in the films seems quite tense due to the slick editing and dark colours. Also, how the two characters are attached to eachother makes it seem like quite an intimate moment. Although, the tension is broken when they rip off each other and become separate. Also, as the music goes up and down in pitch, it makes the audience tense up due to the sudden change. This may have connotations of unstability. As I mentioned before, black has connotations of death, it makes the atmosphere quite haunting. We also see a crow in the opening. Crows are seen as connotations of death.

Due to the action nature of the opening, I would think that the rest of the film would follow a high impact, fast, deteriorating theme. I could imagine the whole film being to destroy all man kind as this new technology is sucking everyone in. But the characters that we're introduced to, appear to break free out of this hold over them. This is represented by the flower opening and closing.

The opening has non diegetic sound of screaming/shouting in the background. The shouting is in tune, which makes it an effective soundtrack. Screaming has connotations of pain and torture. The fast pace increases appears to be increasing their speed of getting out. There are many different layers of sound, which makes it sound even more scary and terrifying.

The titles are quite hidden in the film opening sequence, this may be because the directors of this film wanted the audience to concentrate on the effects more as they probably spent a lot of money on it.