Heroes Analysis ! [Opening Sequence] !

In every episode it starts of with the hero’s logo, with the globe in a shot of a solar eclipse with voice over by one of the main characters, called Mohinder (Indian), where his voice over he gives a brief over view of what happened in the previous episode.

The opening sequence does not only give us an introduction of what previously happened, but it also sets a lot of enigmas and mysteries followed up by strange questions asked and the background music making it even more mystifying. A range of diegetic and non-diegetic sounds being involved.

At a time an actor is shown jumping of a building and before he hits the floor, a quick cut shot is used to wake the character in the new scene.By this, a lot of interpretations could be taken by the audience, not being fully convinced whether the person from the other dream just woke up from a troubling dream or whether it has simplifications of a link between one scene to the other.

Also, the sound of loud sirens leads the audience to an oncoming enigma, which then later is eventually revealed to be a blaze of fire. We see Claire the cheerleader walking into the blazing fire, with heart to go and save someone’s life. This is quite astonishing for the audience, as they would hardly ever imagine or expect a young female cheerleader to even consider saving someone from a building in fire.

The cheerleader is also essential to the main plot, the way this is shown is by the repetition of the phrase “save the cheerleader, save the world”. This phrase is repeated in introductions by Mohinder in opening sequences, engaging the audience for every opening sequence.