Opening Title sequence: Memento

Memento:


Titles in order of appearance:

-A film by Christopher Nolan
-Guy Pearce
-Carrie-Anne Moss
-Memento

This opening sequence is kept short and uses interesting shots to capture aspects of the film to come.  From the beginning of this sequence, we can see that the titles have been made to materialise into the shot as a way of representing memory fading back. A keys plot point of this film is the polaroid camera that the main character uses to leave mementos to himself. with this in mind, as each actors name comes into focus an image of them fades on the card like a memory fades into your mind with a random point in the film of that character playing in the background. This is used to represent random memories fading in and we as the audience do not understand the context of these moments in the same way that the character doesn't either. A plain black background is used to simulate an empty void in the characters mind with only some events coming into focus. The titles are revealed slowly with slow music that builds up to give us the title, much like how the film builds up to a big, climactic moment.