Analysis of Catch me if you can opening squence

The titles in this video are mysterious as you never see the person’s faces so in a way it holds in the audience because if they have never seen what Leonardo Dicaprio looks like they would stay and wait as they have seen his name in the titles. Also these titles are telling the story of the whole film but not the ending. The way that the music is in time with the silhouette characters on the screen is quite clever in the way that it is more quick when the silhouette are trying to chase him, to make the audience have the feeling of being chased.

It is all shot on a wide shot so you can see the exterior backgrounds of where the boy has managed to escape the police. But as soon as he realises he is on the run they cut to close up to give the more petrified feeling to the audience as they can’t show his expressions. Also the way that they have mad the man catching him to be a bigger silhouette than the boy shows that he is more and power and is probably going to catch him. Also how the boy is portrayed as small to other people as well while he should be the same height as he gets rich. He does this because maybe the boy feels insure about himself.

The way that they don’t show the different locations but what they show are little props that make you realise where you are for instance they show an arrow on a sign pointing we kind of get the clue that it is in an airport or a train station. The costumes you use to shows where this boy is as once he is an airplane pilot then you see him in a doctors coat it shows where has been. The way that the police has light on him where his eyes are and on his suit shows him as a good guy. While they boy is all in dark which sort of shows him as an evil side and the audience should not trust him.

As there is no dialogue they can not show the feelings of the characters so they use music to bring in how they feel. For instance when the boy is feeling threatened by the policeman it speeds up more as he feels more nervous and that is how the music sounds like. Also because the music changes from slow to fast it makes the audience pay more attention as it is not mellow music that has no interest to it. At the end it sounds like a whirling kind of music that goes down which sounds like the boy is caught and it is all over.

This opening sequence has influenced my film noir thriller opening by the fact a lot of our opening is some one running from something and also there is a silhouette that is following him where he goes. This gives me ideas for music that we could use for our running scenes as it is the same in our opening sequence as the man is running away from something.