The Mise en scene in this opening sequence begins in black and white creating a dated and old fashioned effect, as if the film is set many years ago, however when the titles begin to show colour is introduced with shapes from playing cards integrated into patterns winding around the main character. A black gun is also used to enhance the danger within poker and the bullets release as red arrows with hearts on the end of the straight line maybe linking to love and the relationships within the film. The colours are all quite high key and contrasting, emphasising the difference in the people playing against each other. The man is wearing a sophisticated black suit enhancing the business and wealth theme/atmosphere to the audience.
At one shot within the titles sequence there is a kings head looking at the man which is quite intimidating and underlining how maybe your playing against the cards aswell as the other players.
The first establishing shot shows a high building with smoke appearing from between a collection of rocks moving towards the building. This could maybe be hinting something else is slowly drifting closer and closer to the building with a sinister effect.
The changes of low angle to high angle shots are maybe used to confuse and alter the audiences view upon this character. Also as he travels up the lift a dutch high angle shot is used to maybe daunt the viewer as he's moving higher and higher. It's also a contradiction of how if someone is moving higher in a building they tend to have a high mean of importance however they've used a high angle which lowers it almost. All of the shots are very fast paced at the beginning which creates tension and anticipation.
At the beginning the sound is quite robotic to suit the fast motions and cutting of the clips to make the car move faster and more sharply towards the outside of the building. This could be the object that is coming towards the building emphasised by the smoke.
When that scene is then repeated the car is moving normally and slowly towards the building with no cuts and the name of the destinations fades in instead of immediately being on the screen. The sound is a continuous eery noise of calm suspense and allows the shot types to be longer so the audience can grasp the concept of what is happening.
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