Film Opening Genre Analysis

Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery

Who are the main characters?
We are immediately introduced to the main character, and by the title of the movie we can guess that this man we are being introduced to is called Dexter. We see his daily life in very small details as if this TV series is all about him. We are not introduced to any other character , however we still get the feel of what this TV series is about.

How has narrative been constructed?
we start if with a sudden awake from a vicious insect. then we have the main title of the TV series. It follows on to his process of the morning, giving us a closeup to his normal life, however they have given us such a detailed narrative we almost don't see normality in his life. We are also slowly brought to the reveling of his face. as we are given so much detail except for the one most important thing , which is the actual recognition of the main characters face., this brings in mystery.

What is the key iconography and how does it signify the genre?
The key iconography are the over dramatic shots of such small detail in someones life bring the theme of drama but also crime as, investigators and also serial killers, look and plan things in such detail.  We also get images of blood and knives etc which also represents crime how ever they have blended it with such normal actions in our daily life. Dexter's face is reveled slowly, and other then how he starts of his day we are not given much information about what is so interesting about this character, this bring in mystery as we start to bring in the enigma code.

Identify the audience pleasures/expectations:
The audience would ask themselves why these daily actions are made us if they were a crime, bring the expectations of gruesome killings and crime. So they would expect serial killers vs police or investigators. The routine in the morning would show someone who is organised and well planned , expecting a clever killer leading on to a lot of mystery. 

This is one of our inspiration of our final opening sequence.