Memento Opening Sequence

Film Title:

The title and credits of this film come up in a cold dark blue colour which tells you it is going to be a very chilly thriller, the writing is on a plain black background so it is giving us no clue of what this film is going to be about. The writing actually starts of more light blue but as it fades away the text becomes a really dark blue to give it a nice effect and make the audience wonder why the writing is doing this.

Setting:

The setting is given to us by a sort of narrator voice which we assume is the voice of the main character explaining he is in a empty hotel room, but there is also another location which we are not to sure about because the shots showing the location are close up shots. These shots are used to keep the audience in suspense close up shots are used often n thriller films as they don’t give away to many clues.

Camera work and editing:

We begin the clip with a lot a long close up shot of a hand shaking the picture the picture isn’t very clear but we can kind of see blood splattered in the picture. As the hand shakes the picture it seems to become blurry. This will confused the audience at this point and make them ask questions such as “why is the picture disappearing, and why is there a picture of blood splattered all over the wall” there is then a close up shot of blood and we relies that everything is happening in reverse which explains why the picture was becoming blurry. Everything going in reverse would come under editing as it would have been done after the shots was done this is really clever editing and they used to close up to keep suspense and confusing to the audience.

How the story opens:

The story opens up with a close up of the photo and showing a man being shpt in the head but they show it in reverse, the way the story opens up it makes the audience ask a lot of questions. Like “why did the man shot him and why did he take a picture of it after he did it”. The audience will also want to know how they got to this place and what is the motive behind the shooting of the man.