Analysis of the Title Sequence From Tim Burton's Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

(Opening Titles)
At the beginning of this title sequence is the names of the two production companies (their logos), this is to show who helped to produce and fund the film, because they are also quite well known for the quality of the films that they produce it tells the audience that they can be assured that what they are about to watch is going to be good quality and enjoyable. The next thing that comes on the screen is the phrase "Warner Bros. Pictures and Dreamworks Pictures present". This is a common thing to appear after the production company logos, it enforces the brand and just continues to keep the audience expectations at the same level. After this it tells you who the main producers are and who's film it is in this case it is Tim Burton. This name is automatically associated with dark mysterious films such as "Edward Scissor Hands" and "Sleepy Hollow", this will give the viewer more assumptions about what the film is going to be like. As the credits continue the most well known actors/actresses are shown first, the very first are Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter as these two people are quite widely associated with Tim Burton's films this gives more for fans of his films to look forward too. There are also some other well known actors such as Alan Rickman and Sacha Baron Cohen which will appeal to a wider audience. Whilst the names of the actors and the producers are being shown there is a sequence of film which at the time was widely associated with Tim Burton films (a similar sequence can be seen in the opening titles of Tim Burton's version of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory").
All of the things the go on in this title sequence add to create the mood of the film. The colours are quite a typical choice for this type of film. The music starts of quite loud and forceful but dies away once the production logos have gone, from then on the music builds to create tension and sets the feel of the film.