Today I analysed the opening of Zen (BBC 1) a thriller television programme. I saw the ways that genre was shown; such as images of
guns to show crime, images of keys as a reference to prison, the protagonist in
a dark, formal suit with sunglasses, looking authoritative and buildings
relating to Italian police headquarters. ‘The Questura’ is clearly inscribed in
stone. This series follows Aurelio Zen and his detective works in Rome and is
based on the novels by Michael Dibdin. I saw how the opening had many visual
signs of the Italianicity of the
show, such as; the red, white and green in vertical strips which connotes the
Italian flag, silhouetted images of St Peter’s Dome as well as top down shots
of St Peter’s Square which are iconic
symbols of Rome, known all over the world over, and Fiat 500 cars.
I used the website The Art Of The Title (www.artofthetitle.com)
which I thought was necessary for me to use. It is a site that is dedicated to
displaying and examining title opening sequences. I picked three opening
sequences to analyse: Moon (Duncan
Jones 2009), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Guy
Ritchie 2005) and The Player (Robert
Altman 1992)
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