http://www.artofthetitle.com/2008/12/26/edward-scissorhands/
The 1990 Burton film, it is a hybrid genre which combines some horror and romance and elements of action in parts. Its' title sequence is used to set up narrative expectation by cleverly using images of thing which are fairly ambiguous unless the viewer has seen the film. This automatically leads the viewer to eagerly await the start of the film as they want to find out the relevance of the representative images.
This foreshadowing of what will happen in the film may be seen as misleading to an extent as it visually gives the impression of a pure horror film, most noticeably due to the images of still or at least inanimate objects moving through the frame. Also, the blue lit hue and the plain black background they move on brings connotations of darkness in the objects featured. Other use of lighting which is more stereotypical of the horror genre is present at the beginning where the extremely low key lighting makes it difficult for the viewer to see what is being presented to them, this is common in sequences such as Saw; a classic horror.
As well as the lighting choices in the sequence, the mise en scene also gives the impression of the horror genre. The actual objects featured in the title sequence e.g. metal smiling robot, connote a sort of danger and definitely makes the viewer wonder what they are there for, and assumption aren't likely to be that they are harmless due to the way they are presented.
However, this contrasts with the score by Danny Elfman as although the strings bring some eerie connotations, it mostly gives a dreamy feel to the movement removing some sinister feel from the images. Horror elements are also balanced due to the PPE segment in which different shaped snowflakes rapidly flash on the screen (still in the blue hue) before falling, though I feel this part removes some of the tension being built, which is the opposite of what it was added for, it does make it clear that the film will not be a pure horror and is one of the first signs of the strange themes the film has that the audience get to see. This may be use of the Enigma code as it could be intended to cause the audience to wonder what sort of things the narrative will include.
Other use of the Enigma code is in the overt use of close-ups combined with reverse zoom effects or a form of panning-styled movement, as this causes the images to not be legible to begin with resulting in the viewer wondering what it is. This feature is also one of things which I found to be a theme in Burtons title sequences, as the flowing movement the panning or zooming (or reverse-zoom) creates a natural route for the audiences eye to follow, this is an effective feature in my opinion.
Though there are many feature I like, there is very little use of Roland Barthes Proairetic code, so I feel the sequence dose appear to become a little random because it is made up of seemingly unrelated events. However, this could be use of the Hermeneutic code (involving something which is unexplained, creating questions) which is very common in the beginning of stories, and once the themes and features of the film of a whole are taken into consideration there is evident utilization of foreshadowing, but this can only be enjoyed once a viewer has seen the full film, which slightly contradicts the use of an opening title sequence.
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