comparing The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo title scene with Seconds title scene!

In comparison to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Seconds has a different approach of playing the titles.

I researched on http://www.artofthetitle.com to compare the difference.

Instead of TGWTDT's idea of using a repeated small font on a less engaging background. The film Seconds uses a large font on top of a shot of interesting visuals of human parts for example, the eye. This means the audience still take notice of the title and the names because they are larger, whereas in TGWTDT the focus is on the small title as the visuals are limited.

 

     Seconds

                

                     The Girl with the dragon tattoo






Also, I noticed that TGWTDT title timings of how long they stay on the frame is rather irrelevant and the level of importance of the names was shown by the time they were shown (early or late). Whereas, I noticed that SECONDS held the title of the more important names on screen for longer, and the less important were removed quicker. Also, the less important titles were put together on the screen, which sped up the titles sequence whereas TGWTDT was quite long.

Seconds 

In SECONDS the main actor was introduced first (first title) at 00.18. Rock Hudson was introduced before the director, in comparison in TGWTDT the director was emphasized hugely by being introduced before any other individuals names. However, they were both repeated to highlight the directors importance.

Nevertheless, I realised that both TGWTDT and SECONDS introduced the main title of the name of the film, early on. 

                                 00.41

                                 00.24

They also both used very dark, mysterious and gloomy colors as well as white writing on a dark background which was frightening and tense.