Opening Title Sequence 2

Opening title sequence of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'

The sequence starts with a blank screen and with music which sounds like someone tramping on drums. In white writing 'Columbia pictures and Metro Goldwyn-Mayer pictures presents' comes up first. We are then told that it is 'A Scot Rubin Yellow Bird production' and a 'David Fincher film' staring Deniel Graig and Rooney Mara. While this information is listed there is a dark background with what looks like either black ink or water. The music holds the same pattern throughout, this is good because it means the music does not distract from the rest of the sequence yet adds affect to the piece. The title is then shown after the main to staring actors and is shortly submerged by the water or ink.

More actors are then listed at this point. The action in the background is fairly graphic yet we can not quite see what is going on. There is not much colour, dark colours are used like blacks, greys and dark blues. At occasional point you see fire and at one point there the shape of what looks like a dragon coming out of the fire. This is significant because it links with the title. As the action does not really give any clues to what the story may be about we are inclined to watch more of the film to find out.

While this is happening after the actors have been listed we are told the other main roles in the film, such as:

• Casting by Laray Mayfield
• Costume Designer Trish Summerville
• Co-producers Berna Leunelle Crush
• Sound Desgin by Pen Klyce
• Editors - Kirk Baxter a.c.e and Angue Wall a.c.e
• Production design Donald Graham Burt
• Executive producers, Steven Zailian, Mikeal Wallen, Ani Faurbype Fernandez
• Produced by Scoot Rubin, Ole Sonderge, Soren Staermose, Cean Chaffin
• Director David Fincher