[No.7] Research - Favourite Film Analysis

DEARJOHN

Dear John is a discrete title sequence as titles are put in with the moving images but the plot isn't clear. Discrete title sequences help give a clue to what would happen later. Dear John uses the favourite trick of film noir as the title sequence began with a death scene which seems like an ending instead of a beginning and you don't understand what has happened but as you watch the film, you begin to understand what leads to the end and the end itself.
What I like about this opening sequence is that although it uses the film noir trick, it also explains who the main character is. I also like that the opening sequence interacts with the audience by saying "You" before the film actually begins.

Order of the Credits:

Screen Gems
A Sony Pictures Entertainment Company
Relativity Media
Screen Gems Presents
In Association with Relativity Media
A Temple Hill Production
A Relativity Media Production
A Film by Lasse Hallstrom
Channing Tatum
Amanda Seyfried
Dear John
Henry Thomas
David Andrews
Scott Porter
and Richard Jenkins
Casting by Joanna Colbert CSA   Richard Mento CSA
Costume Designer Danna Campbell
Music Supervisors Happy Walters   Season Kent
Music by Deborah Lurie
Editor Kristina Boden
Production Designer Kara Lindstrom
Director of Photography Terry Stacey ASC
Co-Producers Kenneth Halsband   Jamie Linden
Executive Producers Jeremiah Samuels   Toby Emmerich   Michele Weiss
Executive Producer Tucker Tooley
Produced by Ryan Kavanaugh
Produced by Mart Bowen   Wyck Godfrey
Based on the Novel by Nicholas Sparks
Screenplay by Jamie Linden
Directed by Lasse Hallstrom