Monday 17 September 2012

analysis of opening scene: limitless

The movie starts with names of the prodution and directors, producers of the movie. the first effect of sound you hear is an loud  banging noise,and then a mintue after a man talking, but finshes with only a sentence. The banging noise makes the audiance think whats going on, as there is no image, and the screen is black. First cut is made in the film as the image of the door appears. As the camera then starts showing around the empty room with boxes, and banging, drill noises could be heard in the backround, as well as faded voices of people talkingThe second cut is made as the rooms change, from the piano one, to the boxed one, and back to the door. This is when the speech starts of the same men, that spoke at the beginning, when the image first appeared.When the speech starts it puts a trill in the audiance, about the movie.
 Close up shot is taken of computer screens and CCTV's, which makes the audiance have a fair idea of what the movie might be about.. keeping close eye, as the computer screen shows a video of CCTV. The image fades and shows us annother image, of dead men lying on the floor. this puts an confusion to the audiance's minds, of what must have happend to those men. it also tells us that the real movie is about to start, and we would find out all the reasons behind what had happend to the mens lying on the floor, and the drills,banging noises. The man that was giving the speech ends it with saying 'well i'll tell you one thing' showing us that  the story is about him, the main story begins. The speech makes the audiance pay attention,aslo draws attention to whats happening. The music starts and everything fast moving, we then see the man who gave the speech, standing on the edge of the terrace. it brings many questions to our minds. He then again starts talking, and draws atttention. suddendly there is a shock the gets the audiance, as there is gunshots from next door. we see this from the view of the main character. ' my neighbour' is then said which lets us know that this is the reason why he wants to end his life, but yet again he also says ' i wont let them get me' telling us that maybe he would rather kill him self, then face them. however we do not know who he is talking about.

2 comments:

  1. You need to embed the video!!! You need to describe camera angles and what the effect has on the viewer. You described in detail what the viewer sees, and the sounds that they hear.

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  2. Focus on ensuring that shots are discussed using appropriate media terminology. It is sometimes easy to fall into the trap of simply describing what is happening without analysis ink how the scenes are constructed.

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