Analysis of opening 2 minutes of Sweeney Todd

• Sweeney Todd is a drama, horror and musical. It is about the story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a. Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop in London, which is the base for him and his companion Mrs. Lovett's sinister plans. 

• This opening title sequence is great because it creates a creepy atmosphere which creepy music and the dark imagery. It sets up the rest of the film, showing that it will be gory. 

• It starts with showing the Dreamworks logo, with some creepy organ music in the background, foreshadowing something frightening is going to happen. Then on a black screen, "Watner Bros. Pictures and Dreamworks Pictures present" comes up. The font is a gothic style. There is quite, eery music in the background. The thunder and lightning is pathetic fallacy, therefore showing that the film is not going to be happy and something bad will happen. The camera then takes us to the sky, where there is thunder and lightning and "A Parkes/MacDonald production."appears. It then moves down to show roof tops and chimneys, where "A Zanuck Company production" appears in the same gothic font.

• We go to one window where we see a chair with blood spattered on the window. This shows that a death will occur. There is also a chair in the middle of the room, and "A Tim Burton Film" appears over the chair. The next shot is of a picture on a wall and it looks like a silhouette of a woman but the picture frame looks old and rusty to suggest that something may have happened to this woman. The actors credits start with Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Alan Rickman etc. 

• We then start to follow a trail of blood as it goes through cogs, then under the floor where the screen goes dark before "Sweeney Todd" comes down from the top of the screen in red, which symbolises blood and evil. Underneath in white comes "The demon barber of Fleet Street". This shows us further that there will be evil in the film. 

• The rest of the opening shows the gore and blood that the rest of the film will hold, including 'meat' coming out of a meat grinder looking like worms and then it follows the trail of blood going through the house and sewers. There is also fire and pies which could leave the audience confused at why there is food in such a dirty place.

• The music in this opening is mostly short high string notes which some booming drums and occasionally trumpets when the title is shown or when the blood reaches the sewers. It gives a tense feeling and sounds quite scary as if it is getting faster and louder. 

• Even though the opening looks animated it still creates a creepy atmosphere very effectively.