Sweeney Todd

The demon barber of fleet street 

I like the opening of this film because as you follow the blood it tells the story of Sweeney Todd. The open is animated and it helps the bright red blood stand out more.

In the opening they use a lot of zoom and graphic match it helps add to the mystery of the film. The music in the background goes from low pitched music, to high pitch to show the many moods and music styles in the film.

•From the beginning of the film we can see it’s a horror straight away. The dark lighting and its tension building music creates a scary and gothic feel to the film.

•The opening introduced the plot by telling the story with the blood. You can see blood traveling down the chair and into the sewers below to help explain the film. It explains the film because it tells you it’s about death and pain, the blood shows the chair which has a trap door that takes you below the house. We can see meat being turned into pies which helps explain the story further. The blood is all the people he kills, falling down the chair into the basement to then being turned into the pies to give to customers.

The different music tones help to show it’s a musical by constantly changing and changing the mood. By showing the sign for a barbers shop we can see that it’s the known tale of Sweeney Todd. The use of the blood also shows it’s a film with a lot of blood in it and there will be many gruesome deaths with in the film.  The opening doesn’t explain much about the characters apart from its about a barber who kills his customers and then turns his victims into pies. The audience is hooked because by showing us the story is encourages to watch more of the films. It tells us just enough to make us want to watch but doesn’t tell us everything to ruin the film.