1. Opening Title Sequence analysis. Dillon
Silence of the Lambs
Opening Title Sequence analysis.
Dillon

2. Props and Costumes.
The OTS starts off with a women running though the wood/forest. As this is a thriller, I though that she was being chased and was running for her life. Sweat was building up around her shirt collar- so this tells us that she had been running for a while. My thought changed and I realised that she was part of a fitness coarse because she runs up to an obstacle that she has to climb over.

3. Setting
There aren’t any props apart from assault coarse obstacles. This suggests that she is athletic, she is determined and in training for something difficult (shows her determination).
The rest of the scene is made up of natural objects found in the woods as this is where the scene is set. The woods are quiet and isolated, typical of the genre.

4. Costume
The only character is wearing a tracksuit- the first thing that I thought of is that the character must either be a laid back person or is the opposite and is doing some exercise.
On the tracksuit top
is the label FBI – telling
us that she is a police
officer / detective and
therefore that the film is
crime based (a typical Thriller)
The costumes of other characters in the OTS is of police trainees, such as a mix of gym wear and investigators., again telling us that this will be a crime based narrative.

5. Camera Shots
The camera shots alternate from a wide shot from behind her to a front mid shot.
The front mid shot tells us her emotions and how she if feeling - it helps us be introduced to the character.
And shot from behind is as though we are following her or an associated point of view shot: It shows what she can see and places her in the setting. The shots suggest she is being watch and add an edgy feel to the scene.
There are a couple panning shots of her feet and side mid shots that show us her pace and how fast she is running.

6. Later on after we realise that she’s part of an assault coarse the shot isn’t made up of loads but is one long scene where the camera follows her down the path- from the back, this slowly overtakes her to a side shot, and as she climbs over an obstacle the camera changes to a front shot but still is part of one clip.
A lot of shots are taken from far back (wide & long
shots), this indicates that she is being watched and
that she is the flawed or vulnerable
(typical of a Thriller protagonist.

7. Soundtrack and Editing
This is really thrilling, as it is fast paced. The tension that is builds makes you think that there will be a climax or a disaster. Although there is none and the music just fades out to her slowing down and approaching some other man. I think this has been done so that we as an audience thinks that she is in danger, and if nothing happens now then probably this is hinting to her being a victim of some sort later on in the film.
There isn’t any editing as such. Apart from changing the lengths of clips ( which is standard to the editing of a movie) no obvious adjustments have been made.

8. Fonts – Colour & Placement
Although none of the shots are framed
with the titles in thought. Most films now a
days will have certain shots that have space
for the titles to be placed, although Silence
of the Lambs has just had bold titles placed
randomly over footage.
The font used is big blocky letters that are only in black and white, no colour has been used, this is probably because to show the emotions of the antagonist.
The use of capital letters and the placing them over ‘busy’ shots is unconventional but the black and white allow it to be seen more easily.