Title Sequence Analysis- Fight Club.

Title sequence analysis- Fight Club.

    1- With regards to mise en scene, the lighting here is purposefully dark, adding a sense of mystery  as the audience is not fully aware of what they're looking at yet, building up a sense of suspense that is often used in psychological thrillers. The music is fast pasted and building, in rhythm with the movement of the scene shown to the audience, adding tension and capturing the audience's attention. 

2- More lighting is revealed in the scene, slowly revealing to the audience that they seem to be looking from a very surreal perspective- from the inside of someone's mind. The fact that the audience are looking at the inside of someone's psychological being hints strongly at the genre of this film. The lighting still remain very low lit, used often in psychological thrillers to remind the audience that all is not clear.

3- The scene continues to move seemingly move through a brain, revealing what seems to cells and parts of the nervous system, but the audience still have to make a lot of assumptions on what is occurring, keeping a strong element of mystery and not revealing anything directly. The music and shots remain fast pasted (again, not revealing anything for too long that could give clues to the rest of the film, and adding to the suspense of the unknown.)

4- The pace of movement and sound in the scene finally but not significantly seems to slow down. The shot begins to reveal more to the viewer than ever, zooming out to show sweat clinging to a person's skin (though still not revealing the identity of this person, and still using murky lighting.)

5- The iconography of the sweat tricking down is typically used in psychological thrillers to represent someone is in danger or distress, but we are yet to know who. Finally, the shot seems to pan down towards another object which is first unclear (capturing the curiosity and therefore the attention of the audience.) The shot is zoomed out until it is finally reveal to be a gun (another piece of iconography commonly used in thrillers.) Finally, the music slows down and fades out dramatically like a siren, and a close face of a terrified man (the man that the audience have seen the inside's of his brain, and sweat) is shown. The title sequence fades as the dialog enters, having already set up what type of genre the film is  as well as the expectation of the film.