Monsters Inc. Title Slide Color Analysis

This title sequence for Monsters Inc. (Doctor, 2001), maintains a visual style by using doors as pathways for monsters, letters, and, in the end, the audience. The title sequence seems to maintain ambiguous space as doors and monsters move around the frame in different directions. The color scheme is highly contrasting as it begins with dark blue colors and transitions down the color scale to light red and orange colors and then ends again with dark blue colors.

This color scheme seems to evoke happier emotions with its use of lighter colors for the majority of the sequence; However, throughout the sequence the darker tones, the scarier monsters, and the screams that are used seem to be trying to scare the viewer. I think that both of these emotions are present to contrast the different monsters within the film. Some of them are bad monsters (the ones that destroy the letters and make children scream) and some are good monsters (the ones that put the final Monsters Inc. title together in the end).

 

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