From Concept to Screen: How does the Credit Sequence from Dexter Work?

This credit sequence has a very large amount of creative ideas, which generally stems from the thought that all things, no matter how normal they seem have a violent undercurrent in some way or form. The sequence emphasises that very well. Eric Anderson, the Creative Director had an idea about crime scene's, not all blood and guts, dead bodies and weapons, etc, but more so about the feel of the photograph's felt, how it has it's own visual language, it all had a very mundane, yet sinister feel to it, which is exactly what he wanted.
As they talked about the show, etc, with the creators, Anderson was noting down ideas as they went along, he nearly instantly thought of the title sequence having the word 'Dexter' upside down, as the concept was similar to Dexter himself, the word upside down looks almost exactly the same, and that's the same with the character, he isn't all that different as a murderer, no huge change actually happened. The sequence itself emphasised this darker meaning about Dexter in a simple yet complex way, I've never seen anything like it before in the opening credits, it makes it stand out so well. It makes everything normal into something violent, cutting an egg open  to eat it seems violent, the way the sauce blurts out like a sudden spray of blood really backs up the violent imagery, however, it shows that the violent side is underneath, as the music is much more playful and bubbly in comparison to the original music chosen. It doesn't simply fixate him as an evil man and nothing else, it allows room for other things also, to show he could also be a normal person. However, it could also connote that violence could be exciting to him, and that with everything he does he wishes for it, which is why his actions seem that angry all the time, but generally, I think that everybody could see the sinister side to this. Also, when he leaves the flat/house he is wearing very normal clothes, just a plain, baby blue shirt, which doubles up the idea of him being a normal guy, but yet again, you can still tell there's something slightly not right, he has this devious look in his eyes and a somewhat sinister smirk spread across his lips, it's a fairly bright contrast to what he's wearing, which are all soft colours, nothing dark or scary.

Within the scene, there is a large amount of scenes with noir lighting and a shallow depth of field, this is used to add to the atmosphere of this piece, it focuses the light on the object we're looking at (in the picture to the right, the fruit) and the depth of field only allows us to see what he's doing, it emphasises on the violent manner of which he is doing it, the insides of the fruit gushing out like blood and guts, the crimson insides of it adding to the look of it.