The document provides a frame-by-frame summary of the title sequence of the film Sweeney Todd. Over 9 frames, it describes how the sequence uses imagery like blood, a barber's chair, and pies to foreshadow the gruesome plot involving a barber who seeks revenge by murdering his customers. The sequence hints at the main character Sweeney Todd's past as a barber, his plans for revenge, and how the victims are ultimately baked into meat pies, with their blood and remains flowing throughout London's sewers and into the ocean in a cycle.

1. SWEENEY TODD.
TITLE SEQUENCE.

2. 1st Frame.
The chimney’s and church spires set the scene as old London, as well as the rain, which also sets the moods through a techniq ue
of pathetic fallacy. The blood in the rain is a foreshadowing of the film, which ties in with the barbers pole, that helps se t the
environment.

3. 2nd Frame.
This frame is where the sequence starts to introduce more gore, as the blood starts to fall onto the
window. The directors name comes over the top of the chair which signifies one of the main features of
the film.

4. It’s Johnny Depp’s name that appears on this slide because it is his character that is related to what is
shown on the screen at the time. This is another foreshadowing of the story.
3rd Frame.
The font would be white to stand out against the dark colours that dominate the film, and even the genre.
The blood spilling from the picture hints that it is this characters death that starts the whole story.

5. 4th Frame.
Here the barbers chair is shown to have beautiful detail, showing that Sweeney Todd did once care about his profession,
but now, like his life, the chair is worn and decayed, soon to be overflowing with blood.

6. 5th Frame.
The colours very dark and dismal to help
the red blood stand out. The cogs
represent the main part of the movie,
which is the building of the chair
showing that Sweeney Todd has made
up his mind about how he will get his
revenge. The main theme is the blood
but it isn’t centered because it is making
its way throughout the story.

7. 6th Frame.
Here the name of the film and the main character comes up in blood red, because it is Sweeney Todd who will be guilty for
most of the blood. The demon barber of fleet street is added to the title because it’s a historical link as the film is based off of
true events. The background is streaked and blurred because the title is made to appear as though it is falling down the dark
tunnel were the dead bodies a thrown.

8. 7th Frame.
Here the blood is turned into the meat which turns back into the blood. This is a very gruesome hint as to what the pie meat
is actually made of. And the way the credits have travelled so far indicates that the pies are made below the barbe 4rs room,
were the dead bodies are dropped, which travels further into the sewers. Showing the unhygienic ways of old London.

9. 8th Frame.
The fire represents the dramatic death
at the end and how the only warmth
ever shown throughout the movie is
actually deadly. The blood surrounding
the pies hints at what they actually
contain, and the fact that the oven is
portrayed as such a confined space
from the pies level reveals how trapped
the victims were ever since they entered
the shop.

10. 9th Frame.
Here the titles have followed the blood and left the sewers, into the ocean were we see Sweeney Todd entering London. In a
way it shows that the whole story will go around in a circle and Sweeney Todd will be will all the other blood that he spilt,
flowing through the sewers and into the ocean.

11. By Kate Burton.