True Detective Title Sequence
When a person is trying to find a television show to watch the title sequence plays a critical role in determining whether or not it will be interesting to the viewer. It is the introduction of the show to the audience and gives them an idea of what they can expect the plot of the show to be. The imagery in the title sequence for the television show True Detective craftily uses double exposure technique to foreshadow the many interwoven themes. It also gives the view a general idea of where the story takes place using images and music. This sequence explores the ties of wealth and church, sexuality and innocence, light and dark, internality and externality, and death and ritual. Duplicity is a theme that is made very apparent throughout this title sequence. It has both literal and figurative meanings. Literally in the way that the images are double exposures, meaning that two imagines are combine to create one overall image. Figuratively because the two separate images together take on a different meaning when combined. Every frame in this title sequence from start to finish is created using double exposures. Based on opening introduction to the show True Detective it is apparent that the location setting is the rural south. There are many images of abandoned industrial buildings most of them appearing to
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Fire is seen throughout the sequence from oil refineries to simply being in the background. The meaning of the fire is differs from frame to frame; it can either represent or illuminate the dark. A frame that shows a man bowing his head with light of the sky above and fire raging below could either signify a man rising from the ashes towards the light or sinking into the darkness below. In an opposing view, a separate frame shows a man’s face where left side is fire while leaving the right side almost black. In this image the fire is not meant as something dark, but as the thing that brings
Fire is seen throughout the sequence from oil refineries to simply being in the background. The meaning of the fire is differs from frame to frame; it can either represent or illuminate the dark. A frame that shows a man bowing his head with light of the sky above and fire raging below could either signify a man rising from the ashes towards the light or sinking into the darkness below. In an opposing view, a separate frame shows a man’s face where left side is fire while leaving the right side almost black. In this image the fire is not meant as something dark, but as the thing that brings