Kyle Cooper - Godzilla

The opening tittle sequence introduces us to the film and this one is incredibly dramatic and Cooper has made it seem incredibly historical and almost like some sort of scrap book or a memory. It begins with pictures and sketches of what seem to be dinosaur fossils and different bones from various animals, it then fades to words which have been processed on a typewriter and other headlines cut out from newspapers. All of this tales place really quickly with everything sliding and flashing on the screen quite briefly. The sequence is then taken over by waves, crashing and old battleships which lead into beach crashes and old marine war scenes! As all of this is happening the music is slowly building in the background it sounds epic and orchestral, it adds to the drama of the sequence which then shows short animations and some still image. We begin to see extremely old computing equiptment and war technology, with images of old cameras and computers. short clips of what seem to be wars and world disasters begin to show, we also see a shot through a telescope. We hear a voice over of a woman saying 5...4...3...2...1 and then an explosion which leads to clear destruction and at the end of the waves a creatures back covered in giant horns. All of this chaos then fades into an image of a pure white light, which to me seemed to suggest some sort of heaven. Breaking through the light we see the word: GODZILLA, this is accompanied by angelic sounds and we hear women singing high notes which.

I like this opening sequence as I like the tension in builds with the dramatic music and the short and fast cuts which contrast wight he angelic and heavenly ending.