- Opens with trains screeching and cars beeping - Diegetic sound
- Non-Diegetic soundtrack - Jay-Z's "99 Problems" integrated with screeching of trains
- Beeping Sound fix in control room, much calmer than the loud music when we see the bad guys
- Contrast between aggressive sound with the antagonist and calmer sounds in the control room with the protagonists.

- Fast speed cuts at the beginning
- Titles - Fast/Slow motion shots of bad guys
- Edited to the song
- Slow frames
- 123 appear in time to the beat of the song
- Titles pull in and move off like trains
-Titles move in front of and behind characters
- Cross-cut editing

Key Plot idea introduced in the sequence:
- To portray the main characters and show that something major is going to happen in the train station

In what order is the story-line introduced?
- We see establishing shots of New York, entering the tube station we are shown close ups of the main antagonists.
- We are then introduced to the protagonists who are at work, talking and having banter with eachother.

What characters are introduced and how?
- The three main antagonists seem very suspicious, the camera focuses on their unusual clothing and behaviour
- The two protagonists are introduced in a comedic way. The two are having a laugh together and enjoying themselves.

What groups are represented and how?
- The working class, they go about their jobs trying to enjoy their day.
- The antagonists are portrayed in a negative light.

1. Colombia
2. Colombia pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures
3. In Association With Relativity Media
4. A Scott free/Escape artists production
5. A film by Tony Scott
6. Denzel Washington
7. John Travolta
8. The Taking of Pelham 123
9. John Turturro
10. Luis Guzman
11. Michael Rispoli
12. And James Gandolfini
13. Frank Wood, John Benjamin Hickey, Gary Basaraba, Ramon Rodriguez
14. Gbengba Akkinagbe, Katherine Sigismund, Jake Siciliano
15. Aunjanue Ellis, Alex Kaluzhsky, Tonye Palano, Jason Biller Harner
16. Casting by Denise Chamian CSA
17. Costume designer Renee Ehrlich Kalfus
18. Music by Harry Gregson-Williams
19. Co-executive Producers Linda Favilia, Anson Downes
20. Editor Chris Lebenzon

Type of Title Sequence:
- Stylised Opening

Font Colours used, Typeface & Size:
- White and blue (as if a train is going past the text)
- Bold/Medium sized

Placement of the title credits:
- Integrated titles move with/like the tains

- Long shot shows character in her living room alone
- Mid-shot as she finishes her wine
- Slow camera movements signify the slow pace of time

- There is a slow fade as the shot transitions, this shows the character is bored and time is going really slow for her
- Music goes in time with the character miming

- Diegetic sounds of her answering machine saying she has no calls suggests no one really cares to contact her
- The song "all By Myself" by Celine Dion is Non-Diegetic at first because she is watching a TV programme, but after she turns it off the song becomes Diegetic and we see her miming along to it

- Camera spins downwards from the light to reveal a young boy sleeping in bed
- Long shot of the boy's bedroom and surroundings
- Close-Up of a spooky old woman in a widow costume
- Stills around the homne including a  long-shot of the family home

The camera fades in and out of still photographs as if we are watching an old slideshow of pictures
- There is a dark tint to the film
- The shots transition very slowly

- Colour theme of black and white, darkness is linked with evil/horror
- Red font connotes blood/danger
- Setting is a little boy's room. Everything seems normal until we see the "widow"
- Widow's costume is a black brides gown complete with a veil. This is quite sinister as bride's gowns are meant to be beautiful and bright

- Very loud and intense music
- It becomes even more intense as we zoom to the close up of the woman
- All sound is non-diegetic