Analysing Title Sequence

My opening title sequence depicts a light hearted show with comedic aspects whilst still keeping it's seriousness about Bristol. This is done by not giving everyone a strong South Western accent. It will be a fictional show which shows what it is like for people who are new to living in Bristol. The theme song Ain't No Rest For The Wicked suggests that a lot of things go wrong for the characters and that they don't have any time to themselves and are always busy. Being a show for entertainment means that the different things that go wrong in the characters lives are things that would not neccesarily happen to the everyday person. 

The audience for my show is young adults that can relate to the lives of the characters, for example they have also moved house or to a new city. This comes across in the title sequence as you can see that the main characters are young adults themselves and also the tone set by the slow camera movement and that the characters are all staring down the camera at the start as if to reach out to the audience and get their attention.

Having long unedited sequences gives the effect of continuity as well as making the program feel slow but this is juxtaposed by the upbeat music that suggests the complete opposite from the camera speed. Having only one sequence suggests that the characters are quite lazy and so the target audience can relate to them as stereotypically young adults are known to be lazy. 

The sequence is about 15 seconds and is clearly divisible from the beginning of the text as the title sequence ends with an ariel shot of the sky and the title Living in Bristol, from here it would cut into the text. Having a relatively short opening sequence means that there is more screen time for the show to get all the storyline across without wasting time. 

The opening sequence links to the text by showing you firstly the four main characters you will be following and secondly setting the general location of where it will take place. The suspension bridge is a form of iconography to show that it will take place in Bristol and also that the show is new and treading on new grounds, as was the suspension bridge when it was built.