To be included in the opening to our 2 minute thriller is a "title sequence", a form of presentation used by television programmes and films. The "title sequence" is used to give the audience an awareness of the character's actual identity as actors and it is usually related to the film's genre. So if the programme was a hospital drama then the title sequence would display iconography in relation to this. For example, an establishing shot of the hospital with the series title hovering at the top of the screen, moving onward into various shots of hospital wards, patients and the operating theatre in a rapid editing style. but this is not to be confused with opening credits.
A good example of a title sequence is in the following video
I find the title sequence of Panic Room effective as it expresses irony through the clear open shots of the city showing space and freedom, which the characters are to have taken from them.
Peter McLaughlin
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