Our clip starts with a shallow focus, close up shot of a book with the silhouette of a hand changing the pages, but the way this is done seems to be in a dark, sinister manner, the hand slowly caresses the book suggesting that this person may be possibly psychotic, and may be the villain. The next image we see is of a detailed drawing of human hands on stained paper, the screen then quickly moves to a close up shot of a man dismantling a razor, removing the blade itself, we then see a quick image of the man's hands but he is cutting away the skin off his fingers with the razorblade we have just previously seen. This footage of the man removing his fingerprints is extremely effective, due to the fact we actually see the skin being peeled away from his fingers, this causes a sense of disgust within the audience but also creates suspense and fear at the same time, the reason for this is that this causes the audience to think why is he removing his fingerprints, we then come to the conclusion that he must be the villain of the movie and prepares us for the grotesque scenes later on in the movie.
We then see various clips of the man and his poorly bandaged fingers handling various items, ranging from making a cup of tea, handling images of murder scene to writing, drawing and cutting up images of the negative film from cameras, so this tells us that the man is creating something like a diary or a scrapbook, so this keeps us drawn into the film and makes us want to know more.
Towards the end of the sequence we realise that he is actually making a scrapbook. To keep the pages held together he uses a needle and thread which seem to be covered in a red, dry matter (we assume this to be blood) again this creates suspense as we want to know what he is making the scrapbook for, especially due to the fact it contains pictures of mutilated corpses and murder scenes, so again this draws us into the film and keeps us on the edge of our seat.
The titles used throughout the whole sequence are alike to the collector, the titles flicker onto the screen and are in a distorted, eroded style font, this works well along with the sequence as the images we are shown are very dark, grim and have a violent aura about them due to the nature of the images themselves.
Background we have the soundtrack playing (Nine Inch Nails, Closer Remix) the song is a very dark, slow paced piece of music composed of metallic sounds and deep bass fluctuations, this suits the footage used as the song itself (due to the sounds it is built up on, loud bangs and scratching etc) suits the dark, psychotic images we are shown, so both the sound and footage used contain many elements within themselves which creates fear, suspense and confusion.
Overall this title sequence works very effectively, although there isn't much footage used, the various elements used within the sequence itself all come together and work as one for example the quick shots of the murder scenes and of the man's scrapbook work well with the dark scraping and loud banging noises of the soundtrack song. This sequence doesn't seem to rely on the footage itself as their is not much used, but it relies and focuses on the image presented by the footage and music, and the image given off is dark, but interesting.
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