Arlington road

In an earlier media lesson we watched a number of title sequences and made notes and I've chosen to comment on the title sequence of the film Arlington Road. The Arlington road openening sequence is very different to all the other ones we watched, it was very abstract with quite a lot of editing that made the clip look weird and distorted. The setting is a typical suburban,area, big houses, garages and fences but the editing makes the setting look far from normal. The editing gave it a kind of supernatural feel to the sequence. It was very distorted and it was hard to make sense of.













The editing, titles and music compliment each other perfectly, there's an excess use of the colour red, it overexaggerates certain settings and makes them look evil and sinister, the long droney music adds to this feeling of possible evil happenings with added screaming sound effects and distant distorted speech. This is a very powerful title sequence that I was very inspired by. I don't normally watch these sort of thrillers but this one really caught my eye with just the opening titles. They gave a real sense of mental disturbance and the way they were editided, clips were darkended, inverted and colour effected. This all added to the greatness of the evil effect that was trying to be created.


This is part of the title sequence. Its a shot of the sky that has been desaturated and slowed down. It may have been edited a bit more to create the effect of the branches to turn black. This silhoutte effect created by the branches contrasts well the cloudy sky.






This is another shot from the title sequence this shows a shot of a baby behind a fence which seems to have been inverted and colour effect added. This ties in with the whole sinister feel that the sequence is trying to convey.

All in all I feel that this is a very well thought out title sequence that does the job of creating a suspensful and sinister mood. I appreciate that it must have taken a huge amount of post production work to create this title sequence with all the editing, music and titles. It was a very powerful and abstract title sequence which to me, stood out a lot from the rest.