Themes and Styles

A theme is the underlying idea that exists in a subject that acts like a foundation for a particular piece of work or are or medium. In title sequences there are may be a key theme in the film that is then reflected in the title sequence. Dexter, is an example of this show below:

In the sequence it show symbolic codes of reds which has connotations of death which relates to the programme as Dexter is blood splatter analyst as serial killer. Furthermore there a lot of enigma codes created from the fact that you see the theme if red shown in him shaving where he actually cuts himself. However there is other times where you see what we see as ketchup however, due to the film and the music making the sequence sound sinister you start to to question your self if that is actually ketchup as you don't see him put the ketchup on the roll.

The enigma codes also used American Psycho as well where we are provoked on questioning ourselves.

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While a Style relates to the method and asthmatics, this is how the theme is created and put together using certain effects. A style is symbolic in other words how something is visually created, like what editing techniques and effects it uses such as for example in Superbad they use the silhouette effect and a grainy effect which represents the quality of films in that era the 70s even though the film itself want film in that time, this is called a flicker effect.