The Bourne Supremacy opening titles analysis

The Bourne Supremacy follows conventions of a films opening sequence such as the us of the production ident of universal. It also does well in presenting the audience to its main character and to the setting of the film and this deliberately done so with the text in the bottom left of the screen that quickly informs the audience of the country that they are in so that they can start to make assumptions about the characters and what they may be doing there.

however the Bourne Supremacy does also break convention in some ways such as the way that there is a lack of cast and crew titles, this is possibly because the film targets predominantly a quite young audience and therefore pushes to get straight into the action and hold its audiences attention. also at the very beginning the audience is bombarded with a barrage of short takes, throwing lots of information at the reader and quickly giving the audience a sense of what was in the previous films in the franchise.

In addition to this lots of effects are used and this creates disorientation in the audience and tried to make us feel empathy for the main character and we can start to under stand what he is going through, this is also fairly unique to this film's opening sequence as most films try to ease their audience into the film with long takes and little effects so that the audience can begin to learn and ask questions of the story.

This shot here is taken from 0:51 and it highlights the sort of shots that I was talking about above as it shows a lot of lights that are blurred and make an attempt at making the audience feel empathy for the character and create the feeling of being lost.




Personally I find this opening to be nether boring nor particularly exciting, the use of fast paced editing at the beginning of the film helps to draw the audience and get them to be interested in the story but then almost lets the audience down to drop the tension and see the main character merely waking up, this I found to be almost disappointing.