The opening credits for Django Unchained features a stationary mid shot of a rocky desert. This is followed by a western country folk guitar slowly picking a riff. This non-diegetic sound creates a loose country atmosphere. This ties in nicely with the setting as the movie is based in the Wild West.
The blocky red typography resembles that of a western saloon bar. This reinforces the setting of the movie which is the Wild West (19th century America).
These titles proceed to continue to show on the still shot background.
The still shot then pans down into a group of black slaves before screening the main title.
By the camera panning down into a medium shot of the group of slaves, reveals the back of the main character as the group struggles forward revealing his brutal whipping scars. This straight away reveals the sheer brutality that slaves were put through at the beginning of the film to set the tone and level of violence yet to come in the film.
The rest of the title sequence features a series of shots of the main character Django.
These shots depict the facial expressions of Django and exploit his emotions and hardship of the character towards the way he is being treated. The fade in and out technique seen above create the effect of Django blurring in and out of reality because of how brutal he is being treated and that he is de-humanised.
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