From Concept to Screen - Dexter

The ideas that were used to create Dexter, were based upon presenting everyday things with a sinister importantance. Eric Anderson took the idea of things that we normally see as mundane, and looked into them in detail he then recontentualized them,' to find that they can actually be presented as violent and sinister within themselves.

 The letter forms in DEXTER are not written normally, two of the letters are the wrong way round; however we can still read this. Anderson explored this idea that we can see what it says on the surface but if we flip it around it's as if something is wrong; this has then been reflected in the character of DEXTER because he becomes a serial killer.


These are some of the images used in the final title sequence.  Some of the extreme close up's use a shallow depth of field to clearly show the violent texture of the object or action. Some of these clips were shown in slow motion , again highlighting the violence. 








The original music Eric Anderson chose was an Xploding Plastix track. He thought the track was extremely powerful, fast paced and felt it showed alot of aggression; however the shows creators felt it had to much of a violent feel to it. Instead they wanted to use a more