Friday, 4 February 2011

Preliminary Opening sequence Analysis




Catch me if you can, has a sans serif font which suits the old fashioned, retro look that Spielberg went for. Its a simple opening sequence which i find is very effective. The coulours at the beginning are just blues and blacks which suits the music at this point because the music is slow at the start but then becomes a little more mysterious, which is the black in the sequence. Then we got to yellow which fits in with the mellow music of the saxophone. Next is orange and the orange turns to red at the same time as the music becomes rushed and jumpy. The man in the sequence begins to run in time to the music. He is being chased by another man and pieces of papaer are flying around, this all relates to the music being fast.
Then as the man is running its pitch black but we see him a bit as the lights are switched on above him sometimes. The title sequence to me shows a man going to work at an airport as everyone is carrying briefcases and there are aeroplanes flying around everywhere. People are going up and down on the elevators. As it is all in cartoon its hard to find out what the film is actually about with such little evidence, but the man we are following does run through quite a few jobs. Firstly the airport, then a doctor then a secretary/office job then a party room with a piano in, which could mean either hes running away and has found himself in the room or could mean hes a waitor. Or just a guest.

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