Understanding Opening Sequences

We would normally have a title sequences in a movie to tell the audience or give them an idea about what the film is about. There would roughly be 20-30 slates as i have learned from my timeline for Napoleon Dynamite and what what would come first in the slates would be the production company then the main character. The three words that describe the mood and atmosphere of a thriller are suspense, impact and mystery.

Background music is tense
Slates are text
Background pictures  
 
Saul Bass: he was a graphic designer So he would use his bizarre art in opening scene this is one of his works from the movie catch me if you can   

 

Pulp Fiction analysis- this is mysterious because it builds up questions like why is the lady on the floor, why she needs the shot of adrenalin and who are all those people and what are they doing there. It also builds up suspense (tension) because you ask yourself what is going to when the needle hits her and the music in the background helps intensify  that scene making you think is something big going to happen, the camera focusing on her face for a long period of time also make you suspect that something big is going to happen.