Title Research: The Matrix
1. What titles are displayed during the opening sequences?
This sequence portrayed titles such as the director's name, the studio who produced the film, the actors involved, and the title of the movie itself.
2. What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
The image that was prioritized the most in the opening sequence was that of a coding screen, number sequences that symmetrically moved up and down and seemed to dissolve into the screen. This image was used to show what looked like the coding of a computer, and what looked to be significant numbers.
3. What connotations do these images carry?
These images have a slightly ominous connotation. The images click repeatedly, in an eerie neon green color. The feeling is almost foreboding, as if the images are meant to be confusing and more than what meets the eye.
4. How does the film establish a feeling of the genre from the outset?
The film establishes a feeling of the dystopian world just from the opening sequence, by creating a seemingly imaginary setting. For example, two people are having a conversation and one wonders whether the call is being traced. This is used as background to the computer world, in which an imaginary society is alluded to. Much like other dystopias, in which imaginary societies have common themes of fear, and unpleasantness.
5. What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
The film uses strong and visually shocking transitions, coupled with suspenseful music that leaves fans of dystopias on the edge of their seats. Additionally, the lighting is dim and gloomy, which adds to the fear the audience picks up. The actors walking through an abandoned or destroyed area, carrying guns and yelling only adds to this. Suspense and fear are what fans of dystopias tend to look for, along with action and heroism.
6. How has technology been used effectively?
The technology in this opening sequence was used to create expectation. For example, the low angle of the woman when she is under arrest is not only slightly scary, because she seems to have no reaction to the loud armed officers behind her, but also sparks curiosity in the observer, because she seems to be staring at a screen, which the audience cannot see. The transitions are so fast the audience doesn't have much time to readjust, which is a clever tactic so that the audience doesn’t get bored and is wondering what's going on. The transitions leave the audience wanting more. The editing enhances the travel like effect into a strange world, for example the camera shoots through a tunnel like environment in which the sound also picks up, shocking the audience into a new scene that is completely unlike the first.
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