The Godfather: Title Sequence

The Godfather's titles consist of just the name strips which appear over police records of the mug shots that appear onto the screan. Or the names will appear as autographes on the back of pictures as they come onto the screen. All the titles are in white upon a blackbackground, other than the autographes. These tiltes are very small and slighlty draw just as much attention to them as needed. The shots many depict some irony, by showing mug shots, which are also used by police when someone is caught offending. They also show a gang, or gang culture and crime, as they are shown one after the other. Throughout the sequence the colours remain grey and dark to show that the pictures are old and possible to show what has been shown is in the past in the storyline of the film. The lack of colour also shows there may be some sort of darker side of the men shown.