Spy espionage title sequence

Mission impossible (1996)

In this opening they use mainly close ups of faces, parts of peoples faces, objects and of the titles/names. The main part they want us as the audience to notice, is the fuse that keeps being shown and that you can here throughout most of the beginning as a fuse is something that leads to blowing something up and blowing things up tend to be in spy movies or action movies.

The clips move quickly, so you only get a glimpse of what it happening, this is suitable to the genre as if you were a spy, usually you have to be pretty quick, e.g fighting and cracking codes (codes are also shown in the title sequence).

The music is commonly used in spy movies, so this indicates right away what genre this movie will be. The music matches and doesn't seem out of place, for instance for a comedy stereotypically you wouldn't have a creepy lullaby playing, so music is important when it comes to the genre.

The sequence starts with the fuse being lit, and once it is lit, the music finishes its intro and starts, along with the sequence of clips, so the fuse could be a representation of how long the title sequence will be, just like a spy would only have a certain amount of time to get away/ do what needs to be done before the fuse gets to the end.

The font used is easily readable and is suitable to the genre as its fancy or creepy, its bold and straightforward. As the subtitles appear, a more close up but blurred version of it slides from one side of the screen to the other, as if on a billboard, the movements are different so the subtitle gets bigger/closer to the screen and the doubled version zooms from right to left.

The scene starts with a picture of a woman, but the lighting around it is dark, meaning there is mystery involved. When the air hostess and the man speak, she says what she has said to everyone else, but this time they were speaking a sort of code, so she would know what 'movie' to give him. This of course is not a movie but a document explaining what the mission that they want him involved in, is about.