Memento(Christopher Nolan, US, 2000)

Title of the film

The audience can firstly tell that this video is a thriller before they even get to see any action with the credits. The film makers do this by using the colour Blue to show the title of the film. This indicates in itself that this is a thriller because the colour blue is normally associated with thriller film just as dull colours like black and grey are to horror. The film makers most likely done this to ell the audience that this is a thriller so the audience knows what it is in for.

Setting / Location

The audience can see that the setting an location for the film is in a bath room type place they know this because on the picture that is fist shown they can see white tiles which are normally found in areas like a bath room for example. They may have set the introduction in a bathroom because they wanted the audience to ask them selves questions about what is happening, what has happened and what is going to happen.

Costumes / props

The only prop that is used this Memento is the man standing there holding a Polaroid of someone that has just been shot for most of the opening title sequence. This was deliberately done to the audience so they would start to ask them selves question about the events that have take place there and so that the audience would try to puzzle things together. Although this Polaroid is a very relevant one because the next scene revolves around this picture which reveals how the man got there with that picture.

Interesting camera work and editing

One of the interesting pieces of editing is the way the film makers have done everything in reverse. The audience may not have seen it first of all but the Polaroid degrades in the amount that it has progressed into becoming a picture and the film makers continue this in the next scene. Once the picture starts the degrading they may come under the assumption that they are about to find out how the man got that picture in his hand and also hat happen to man in the picture.

Title and font style

The title was a very plain title. The things that it has that is normal things such as the title is bigger than the rest of the there credits to firstly indicate that is the title and probably the most important thing but it is also in the colour blue which is again to show that the film is thriller.

Story – and how the opening sequence sets up the story

The story is begging to be set up toward the end of the opening title sequence. When know this because the Polaroid begins to start degrading in the amount it has set which gives an indication to the audience that they are about to find out the event that took place and then the story for the rest of the film builds there.

Genre

One of the way that the audience can tell that it is a thriller film is because firstly the titles are in the colour blue which is a commonly used colour for opening credit is thriller films. Also thrillers tend to get the audience asking a lot of questions and the Polaroid again gets the audience asking a lot of questions about what is going on in the film.

How any characters are introduced?

There are not really any character introduced because all the audience can see for the whole introduction is the man holding the Polaroid this in it self isn’t really enough to say that the man has been introduced because you can only see his hand and that is all the information about the man himself.