True Detective Analysis

Whilst watching the opening scene of 'True Detective' I picked up that in terms of lighting it was mostly bright throughout the whole piece. Although I thought he editing was very good , the typography was well placed and the use of double layers was very effective as well.

There was a lot of black and white and this gave it a depressing feel , there is one image shown which has 3 images  in one ( triple layered ) with a house a power station and a girl and it is almost as if the girl is sort of watching over the house but the house doesn't look like a nice place to live in linking back to the depressing feeling idea.

The image of the man half black and half white who we think it a detective , we find this an interesting image as it suggests  to us that his true identity hasn't been revealed that there is still a lot that needs to be found out about this character and whether he is actually a true detective or not relating back to the title of the film. Another thing is that there is a contrast between black and white linking to the contrast with good and evil o the half white and black could signify  him  having both a good side to him and an evil side

There is another picture whereby we see another double layer but the main layer is an eye and we see another picture within this eye and this is telling us a story from this persons perspective and what they were thinking this was important as it gave us another idea and made us think differently as oppose to some of the other shots. 

At the end of the title sequence there is a crucial long shot of the two cops just standing as if they are watching over the city looking like they are in control where in actual fact their are not in control, however the long shot is effective as it makes the cops look more powerful which is the intention in this case they look more powerful because the area that they are watching over looks much bigger because it is a zoomed out shot .