Analyse of Dexter

The opening credits of Dexter starts with an over the shoulder shot of the character which meand the audience are seeing what the other character is seeing.

The image of Dexters reflection is blurred which means you do not get a clear image in your head of what the character looks like because the lighting makes us not able to see. Here the directors may want to achieve the fact of winning over the audience to make them carry on watching the film to see what Dexter looks like.

As the credits of Dexter goes on, there are many extreme close up shots of what the character does to get ready in the morning. As the shots are extereme close ups they do not give the audience a clear impression of what Dexter is really doing in his morning routine. For example, when Dexter is cutting meat for his breakfast, as its a close up shot we dont see the whole of what he is cutting which makes us think that he is cutting flesh rather than making a normal breakfast.

Everything which Dexter is doing in the morning gets put into a negative image which gives the audience a pathway of what type of character Dexter will be through out the rest of the film.

As the opening credits go the music slights begins to increase in beat and sound giving the effect of making tension build for the viewers.

As we dont get to see a clear image of the main character at the start of the opening sequence but see his actions and how they get reflected as if Dexter is doing wrong, it leaves the audience watching and wanting to find out what the man looks like. At the end of the opening sequence we see that Dexter is a normal man which gives us a slight introduction to the main character.