Tim Burton is easily one of my favourite directors - his style is instantaneously recognizable and his opening sequences always strike me the most and immediately entice me. Burton will never show an actor to distract the audience from producers, screenwriters etc involved within his usually massive productions. Burton will always tell a story within his opening titles played along with the movie's main musical theme. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) shows the process of the "golden ticket" behind packaged and sent across the world to be opened by kids. In Sleepy Hollow (1999) we become aware of the air of ghostliness surrounding the small desolate town of Sleepy Hollow. In class, I presented the opening of Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street - in the opening titles, Burton uses his signature not-real-not-animated cartoonish look to follow the track of Sweeney's victims through the chair and down the shoot, then being cooked and made into pies whilst the blood is washed down the gutter into the River Thames. The blood is shown brightly and sickly sticky on the screen making the audience uncomfortable before the audience ever sees Johnny Depp.
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