'Orphan' - Title Sequence

It opens with the ‘Warner Bro Pictures’ logo very dark on a dark background but then after a couple of seconds splatters of green and pink paint are shown to be splattered on it. In the background we here the music and it starts off very low and quite to build up tension but when we see the paint come up there is a flickering sound of lights flickering. That sequence then blends into the company ‘logo of Dark Castle’ and the same paint and flickering of lights has been used on this and the words ‘Dark Castle’ have been coloured in and part of the outline of the image of a castle has been too. Some of the splatters have just been let to run down the image and that gives you the idea of blood which shows what kind of film this is but as it doesn’t give to much away it already has an enigma.

In the next sequence we have the start of the credits and around the names are drawing which are clearly done by a child. One is a photo of two people and the other is of the bible, we still hear the flickering of lights but we don’t see the paint straight away so maybe that shows that things don’t happen straight away or that there is doubt. What are flickering though, are the names of the actors it goes from ‘Vera Farmiga’ to ‘Peter Sarsgaard’. When the credit somes on for the girl who plays ‘Esther’ there is a drawing of a girl and when the light flickers this time there are more paint splashes. The drawing has been drawn over with scissors cutting the throat, the hair is on fire and one eye had been crossed out with a pin in it so whoever has done the these drawing obviously has serious problems. The next picture is just of a ribbon and it must be important because if it wasn’t, it would be too random and out of place. The two names that come up in this are of the other two children, one is of the boy ‘Jimmy Bennett’ and the other is of the girl called ‘Aryana’, in this sequence they put her last name as ‘Bennett’ but after I did some research I found out that it was a mistake, her real name is ‘Engineer’.

The second last sequence is of a building with children or grown ups in it, at this stage we don’t know, the building is on fire and a door has been scribbled in. There is also a cross, so we get the idea that the building might be a church or maybe has a link with the church. The final sequence is just of the title of the movie, which is just in a plain font and as the light flickers for the final time we see it has just been drawn over.