The Town Opening Analysis
The scene starts with a black screen with white text on it with a quote from a Federal agent , straight away I presume the film has a certain level of crime involved. The scene cuts to an aerial shot of Boston this suggests that the film is based in the city of Boston , then cuts to a sign saying " Harvard Buses and Trains" the camera then pans to a variety of people one of those people happens to be a police officer which makes my suspicion of this film involving a certain degree of crime even stronger, then there is a voice over by the main actor Ben Affleck describing two security guards the scene then cuts to a close up of Ben Affleck and there is three more close ups of his accomplices. The scene then cuts back to the two security guards and there is an over the shoulder shot as one of the security guards is walking in to a bank but as the security guard walks in to the bank the screen goes black and white this gives the audience the affect that the security guard is being watched on a CCTV camera.Collateral Trailer Analysis
The clip begins with one of the main actors Jamie Foxx starting his taxi , then the scene cuts to him driving with a passenger in the back, who we don't see but the audience can hear him talking with Jamie Foxx. Then camera pans out of the Taxi as a airplane lands this suggests to me that an important character could be on the airplane. The clip then cuts to different locations like a night club and inside the airplane while these two cuts are happening there is a constant voice over from the man who the audience has not seen yet in the back of the taxi. The man in the back of the Taxi who has not been reveled yet is still talking the to the Taxi driver (Jamie Foxx) asking him to take him to five different locations, the scene carry's on until the man in the back of the taxi offers the taxi driver six hundred dollars then he asked what the drivers name is which is Max then the clip cuts back to the man in the back of the taxi revealing his identity and his name is Vincent (Tom Cruise) . Then there is an over the shoulder shot of Vincent going in to a building the it cuts back to the taxi driver , the camera then pans round and there is a close up the mans briefcase it could possibly contain something important , it then cuts to an aerial shot of the taxi as a man falls on top of it from a building. Then Max the taxi driver jumps out of the taxi in shock then sees Vincent walk out of the building casually as if nothing happened and then confesses to shooting the man who fell out of the building but he looks very relaxed and appears to think its except able. The camera then does a series of quick jump cuts of Vincent killing people , with non diegetic music in the background the music is upbeat.S.W.A.T Opening Analysis
The clip begins with a blank screen then in white writing it says S.W.A.T this is very eye catching for the audience. The clip then cuts to an aerial shot of Hollywood and all the audience hears is gun shots this is a big indication that the film is a crime/thriller . The sequence continues with the aerial shot of the gun fight between police officers and bank robbers. As this carnage is happening the camera loses a lot of its quality i think that is because the director wants to the audience to have a feeling as if they are they're. The clip cuts to a close up of the bank robber but all you can see are his eyes and mouth as his face is covered. Non diegetic music comes on as a big black van come along around the corner the music is upbeat this suggests to me that the people or person are crucial to this scene, there is an aerial shot above the black van and it says S.W.A.T in white letters this is very similar to the beginning of the film.
Se7en
The opening scene is quite simple and doesn't give much of the story away. The opening scene instantly tells me it's a "Crime Thriller"...
The scene starts with a book open suggesting the character with the book is smart in some way. The names of people contrast this idea with badly written
words almost rushed like and flicker from position and focus transitioning onto a black backgroup through each clip shown, the whole way through images seem to mesh/overlap and flicker position. which is a very non-traditional way of an opening credit scene but creates a thrilling atmosphere emphesised by the CGM (ComputerGeneratedMusic).There is then a clip of hands very carfully drawn suggesting a character with steady hands and a perfectionist which many "villans" are within a "Crime Thriller" as it would be a very short film if the murderer wasn't smart at dogging the police. the clips then flicker from extreme close up to some sort of mechanical device(s) representing his "tools" there is then a close up of 2 hands grasping a razon blade this is worrying enough to being with but the fingers holding the razon are dirty and morphed to look almost unhuman. The next clip is of an extreme close up of a hand putting a teabag into a cup which is quite inocent but imbetween there is a quick flash of an image. (below)
which is an absolutely disgusting photo of a persons mangled face! which makes me think, as the audience, that there may be a bit horror within this film.The word SE7EN unfocused and in small font apeal before it then flashes for a split second to massive very clear writing suggesting secrecy. It then cuts to shot's of the man taking a book and writing in it. Then there is a picture out of focus of a persons face with a red filter connoting death,murder,blood. there then is a series of edits of hands cutting pictures of people maybe a metephor for people he cut(killed) these is then a very quick, but inportant edit of an image (below)
Which makes me as the audience put two and two together "GOD" and "Seven" I get the general idea that the film will revolve around the Bibles "Seve deadly sins". there is then a cut to a close up of a document with the hand holding a pen marking over the word "PREGNANT" which may have an indication of whta will happen in the film.
Quick Note - I may have looked to into it but i found that in 2 flash edits the words C-24 come up which could mean this may be important in the film.
A pen then crosses out the words "intercourse" and "transexual" which gives an idea of the film being about sex/sexuality. The shot then edits to the credits of the "casted by" with an image of a man/boy having his eyes penned over suggesting that that person has been murdered and then jump cuts to the persons whole face scribbled out suggesting that person was brutally murdered. the scene then just keeps editing to pictures of people dead or with their eyes penned over emphesising the murder/death that will happen in the film. at the end of the scene the msuic picks up and these is a long take (for how fast the transition editing is) of the word GOD being cut out of a peice of paper, maybe connoting an idea that God/religion has been taken/removed out of the persons life, through the whole peice of music that plays in never any singing exept for this bit where a man says "You've got me closer to God" which contrasts on what is happening on screen.
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No Country For Old Men Opening Analysis
By Peter Gatling
The Scene starts with a black screen & a voice over from Tommy Lee Jones's character, it then switches from a black screen to establishing shots of a western landscape. The camera then pans to a shot an officer putting a man in the car. The sequence then continues to a scene in the station with the officer in focus while on the phone and the man arrested in the previous scene blurred in the background getting up off his seat slowly walking toward the officer on the phone, while the camera slowly zooms to the officer.The camera then zooms in on the chain of the mans handcuffs choking the officer although this quickly jumps in and out of the shot, connoting the chaoticness the of the situation. The camera then zooms to the face of the man choking the office, this allows the audience to only react the the emotion on the mans face rather than the police officer.
