Gone Girl

OPENING SEQUENCE TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

• During the production and distribution title sequencesthe ominous music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross is already an effect• Audience is immediately thrown in to sense of tension• Each title credit last no longer than 3 seconds ( one

second to fade in , 1 second pause, 1 second to fade out) leaving you with only a breath chance to scan the text genery reading the sense of urgency the editing is swift and there is no moment of relief

• Ben Afflects narration begins instanly after title credit forcing our senses to shift a concentration the dialogue and also still reading the text ( Stimuli, Sound, visual text)

SOUND

• Begins with a two second fade in to a medium close up of a mysterious hand, brushing the hair of an unknown women

• Straight away the audience can kind of associative the narration to the mysterious hand referring the women as his wife ( relation of the two characters)

• The fact that the man is brushing the hair of the woman represents the stereotype that women are just seen as passive objects, this is also represented here due to the dialogue where he talks about cracking her skull

FIRST SHOT

• This medium close up of the woman's face connotes her fear and her unhappiness of her husband and their marriage

• The fact that we can see her eyes looking up connotes that she is being placed in the mans gaze linking to Laura Mulveys theory of a males gaze.

• The low key lighting connotes the dramatic and somewhat dark marriage that they may have.

• This lighting could be a dominant iconography of the genre since low key lighting is a convention of a thriller film

FIRST SHOT (2ND PART)

• This extreme long shot connotes dullness of the lives of the two people and possibly early stage in their marriage where they are unhappy

• This is also an establishing shot that shows the setting of where the films plot takes place in and connotes the boring and unpleasantness of the place they are living in

SHOT 2