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Greg's Titling Analysis: The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo

 The titling sequence starts in a dark room with an old man opening a mysterious package. in the package, is a picture of some kind of plant, and he discovers it was sent from Hong Kong. The picture clearly has some meaning to him, though we don't know what. We know this because he starts crying.

 The next shot is a picture of a woman, and we assume the package was related to this woman. We don't know who this woman is or her relation to the old man, but we do know it must be a close relationship, like family

 The title, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, appears over the picture. Because it is the title, we assume she is an important part to the plot, maybe even the main charater

We then cut to this shot as the title fades out. It is of a female with a hood on walking down a street. We think that maybe it is the same girl we saw in the picture. Whoever she is, she certainly doesn't want to be recognised

Greg's Titling analysis: Se7en

The title sequence of Se7en aims to set the dark and disturbing tone of the film. It achieves this in a few ways

 The text in the sequence jumps around the screen and also looks like it was handwritten. Sometimes the text gets inverted. This gives us a sense that the film is based around an unstable mind. It also fits with what is happening in the sequence, which shows him making a scrapbook of the crimes he's committed

 We also get some disturbing imagery. For example, there is a shot of this strange character using a razor so cut off this skin of his fingers. there is also a shot of someones hands, which have been broken and mutilated

 There is also this shot, which adds to the disturbing theme. It shows a man washing a cloth or something similar. Some colour is coming off the cloth, and we assume it is blood.

 The title is the same as the rest of the text, but in all caps. It also jumps around more than the rest of the text.

 The shot then fades into a shot of the character taking a book or something out of a box. This maybe him starting the scrapbook

Greg's Titling analysis: Kill Bill

 The title sequence starts with a sound bridge of a gunshot when Uma Thurman's character gets shot

 It cuts straight into white text (as seen above), the black background shows us that she is in a coma or dead, as black is a colour that represents death

 The text gets a little bigger after it fades into the next title.

We see a fade to the title, which is bigger than the other titles.