Analysis of godfather-opening scene

The film begins with a pitch black screen and slow music in the backround.we then see the first words ' mario puzo's the godfather, this lets us know that the movie has just started, the text is bold and clear to read. The picture fades away and you are left with just the black screen,this makes the audinace want to know what happens next. Theres a 2 second pause, before the first scene appears. In this scene the man, in sitting in the dark and talking to someone, however we do not know who he is talking to, as we can not see annother person in the room. his accent tells us that he is italain, but his first words are ' i believe in america' this shows the audinace that although he is italian, he lives in the USA, and believe to be a citizen, a part of it. The shot that is taken is a close up shot, this is to show the audinace his facial expressions, although he is in the dark, and you can not really see him properly. the camera then moves slowly backwards giving us a medium lenght shot, this make it look like that the man is talking to the viewer, as in telling his story, but as theres a camera shot of over the shoulder, there is another person close up in the frame, and the audiance relaise that he talking to someone else, sharing his story rather then talking to the audiance. As at first it looks like that the man is talking to the audiance this gets them intressted as they feel involved.