Analysis on a title sequence of my choosing

The title sequence I chose for analysis is Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009). In my own opinion this title sequence is a spectacular piece of videography.


The style and theme works well with the story setting, round in the late 19th century. it has an old parchment style, with water marks and stains. Also with the handwriting, it's quite old fashioned and frilly.

With the title sequence, they play a short piece of footage that happened during the film, and created a still, using effects with the old parchment look and frilly handwriting of the credits.

Reasons for the title sequence changing the texture of parts of the clips is that Sherlock Holmes was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote up Sherlock Holmes. Guy Ritchie took this in relation to the title sequence to create the effect that parts of the clips are from the novel, thus having shots of the film photoshopped to look like parchment, which relates to it being part of the novel.

By watching this title sequence, we can see that the setting is based in 19th century London, England. 

There are famous landmarks that are shown in this title sequence, which relates to being in London, there is an old-English feel to the title sequence, cobblestone streets with horses, carts, market stalls, quite dirty and gritty.