Mars Attack Title Sequence Analysis

Mars Attack Title Sequence

The opening title sequence opens with the warner brother’s pitchers logo showing this is a Hollywood film and who the producers of the film are. In addition, they edited the entrance clip of warner brothers by applying a UFO flying round in the sky, showing that UFOs play a aspect in the film.

It then opens with a narrative by showing a clip of man coming out taking his rubbish to the bin, just doing the normal day life. The Asian man then starts talking to his neighbour and they ask ‘what is that noise?’ which indicates something is coming to the audience building up suspense. It shows the road hill top with a  red glow raising up           over the hill ,the glow  is red which can suggest there is a death and blood throughout the film , from the audience and the film being based around ‘Mars’ you think its aliens or UFO coming up the hill. Then the children start running out screaming ‘Daddy what is that!’.  The music is an orchestra  group with violins ect and starts getting more faster and louder building suspense and creating a scared atmosphere as if something terrible about to happen.

As the glow gets closer , its actually cows running down on fire. Then a UFO flies off behind the house , showing to the audience that these aliens are coming in contact with earth and are going to cause chaos to all the Americans.

The next scene follows the UFO out to space as its flying back home to ‘Mars’ the names of the actors starting appearing rotating in a circular loop like UFOs themselves still linking to the SCI-FI alien themes. The planet Mars is still red with the colour suggesting the planet is dangerous , and suggesting they will cause death and blood. In addition the earth is seen behind in the distance of mars which shows the aliens target is to wipe off the planet earth

The music slows down and goes in to a space sounds of UFO’s creating a spooky atmosphere .

Hundreds of UFOS start to rise from planet mars and they are all heading towards earth and the music starts getting faster and louder , hinting to the audience they are going to attack earth and cause chaos like a huge war.

The sequence continues to cut into different angels showing all the thousands of spaceships UFO together like a huge army heading towards earth for a battle with the humans possibly to wipe the human race and cause death and chaos there. However you don’t actually see what’s driving these UFO’s still so it’s a still a mystery what they look like and ect and the music continues  to get louder and quicker to build up tension as they get closer.

A green glow comes out over the scene of the UFOS traveling to earth and it spells ‘Mars Attack’ the colour green still suggest the science sci-fi film it has