The Dark Knight (2010) opening sequence analysis

This is an action thriller movie made in 2010. It begins with titles over black of the production and funding titles with no score only silence apart of the sound effects that go with some of the production titles. There is a long zooming in shot to show the location which in this case is New York denoted by the sky scrapers. The non diegetic asynchronous score is very quiet and almost silent but is a monotonous note over a montage-type sequence showing what the different characters are doing yet are connected. When the camera zooms into a mask that a character is holding it means it is a key prop which is an enigma as it raises the question of why it has such importance. The score begins to become more tense and slightly faster paced as the editing becomes fast paced too which is a trait of the thriller genre especially the action thriller genre.

The characters wearing masks can connote a robbery of some sort which creates suspense for the audience as they wonder what they are going to rob and why. An over the shoulder shot is used to show one character betraying the other which shocks the audience a trait if a thriller. Cross cutting is used to create more tense and shoe fast pace editing between the characters robbing the bank and the characters getting into the safe denoting the action. The score becomes increasingly tense which builds up the suspense and the feeling that something surprising is going to happen. Each character starts to "betray" one another due to greed for money which doesn't shock the audience however a red herring is used as in the end all the information given about "the joker" being the man who has just gotten the job for the criminals, when in the end it is revealed that he's been amongst the criminals all along.