My favourite Film (Title Sequence of War of the Worlds)

This Title sequence is really engaging and fills me with suspense as I personally love Sci-fi movies. It starts off quite calmly with strange moving images of microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses, which hints at the audience that this is a science-based movie. There is a voice-over of Morgan Freeman talking throughout this sequence while the moving images changes to the everyday world such as people walking around and a young boy playing baseball.

He talks about alien lifeforms observing us, watching how we study each other which also adds to the element of suspense and causes the audience to question what the "unknown" life forms want with us. However, the ending of this title sequence is the most chilling part and captivating . The camera goes up and faces the earth were unexpectedly behind our planet is a bright light that comes forward and fills the screen which could indicate that something detrimental is going to happen. The music at the end changes, it becomes louder, more sinister and dramatic which contradicts to the music being played at the beginning. The use of Morgans Freemans voice makes the title sequence even more effective, this is because his voice creates that suspense disbelief.