Research - memento opening.

The film Memento starts with a lens flare effect and the opening credits. The production company 'Newmarket' and the rest of the credits are all in blue writing fades in and out into white. After the credits the main character 'Lenny' is holding a photo as a memory which fades in, this along with the slow string music creates a calm dramatic sense of feeling. As Lenny shakes the picture up until we see him kill 'Teddy' the scene moves very slowly with no cuts, and is showing the motion of time roll backwards which gives the feeling of disorientation and confusion (non-linear). In the scene there are loads of extreme close ups and close ups on important objects, such as the gun, blood, bullet, glasses, photo. as the scene changes we hear a voice over describing the room and see a black and white hotel room and get a close up of lenny's eye, (a convention of the thriller genre).