Throughout the opening sequence the pace at which it is edited is choppy and fast pace, it uses this jagged style through of cutting to one shot then a cut to another angle and back in snappy sort of feel. The whole title sequence is a montage of clips and images that build tension and interest. The soundtrack begins quite slow an so does the amount of cuts but when the soundtrack increases so does the amount of cuts increasing tension and creating what feels like a build up. The transition used through out this short title sequence is mostly cuts, but with the artistic use of fades and crossovers. They have used a film effect on top of the clips, as well the use of stock footage to instigate a manic feel building more tension. The clips will cut to black to display the titles, with the titles having a sketchy ADHD feel, as they zoom off in all directions.
The camera manipulates our visuals, to create tension and intrigue. The whole scene mostly uses either close up, or an extreme closeup. This means the audience can't see the whole picture and gives us the full emotion of what the camera is looking at, this builds interest and tension due to to its ambiguous nature. The first shot is of a book however the hand movements in the background out of focus this use of selective focus makes the audience wonder what is going on, building not only interest but anticipation due to the audience wondering what is going to happen next, and this technique is used throughout the whole sequence.
In this title sequence the use of sound is very unique. The non-diagetic sound has a very urban feel, while slow they used foley sound effects, for example like the screeching and other machine elements, this creates a disorientating feel and instigates the unnerving feeling as tension builds. Around the one minute and 12 seconds the impact of the sound increases as the guitar hits in, while the hirling and razor sound effects continue throughout making a very effective use of sound effects.
Finally and most important the mise en scene. This is what makes this sequence so chilling. While the scene begins and there is no establishing shot so most of the mise on scene is bases on vague assumption. Due to the ambigous nature we begin believing that the set looks like it could be a workshop, office or a detectives office. However what extinguishes this thought is the clip of the razor blade cutting off the finger tips displaying that it is a criminal, due to this being the method of removing your finger prints, and only skilled or committed criminals would make this painful sacrifice. There is cutting of picture and film strips, which suggesting whoever is in control of the hands are plotting something and from the finger tip clip we can incinerate anything good. It appears that the person is doing some sort of research due to all the documents scattered around. The camera focuses on the character crossing out things like 'intercourse' and 'transsexual' from a book, then the vigorous crossing out of a picture of a face. Creating a tension filled intriguing title sequence.
