Alex's Thriller Opening

The title sequence for the film “Misery” is fairly simple. The mood of the character is shown to be fairly good, but we don’t know whether the music being played is diegetic or non-diegetic because we don’t see whether he turns the radio on. However, the music being played is jazz music. It is uplifting and shows us he is in a rather good mood.

The titling graphics is very simple. The text is red with a jagged-like font, and the titles are set at the bottom and middle of the screen. So this titling would be easy to do when editing, however this film was made 21 years ago so it would have been much more difficult to do back then.

The character’s facial expressions and body language show he is in a good mood. He is calm, until he loses control of his car. When he crashes his car, the music stops all of a sudden. So the music is probably non-diegetic.

When the car crashes, and stops to a halt, the titles show the producers names so that viewers will look at it because the action has stopped.

In conclusion, the titling sequence is a very simple method of fading titles. The music adds to the mood well and shows how the character is feeling. The placement of the titles are also very simple, and the timing of the titles are effective (when the car crashes).