inspirational / creative opening sequences

Olympus has fallen –

It starts of in a snowy Christmas time forest scene where the camera tilts upwards over a forest covered in snow in America this sets the scene as it happened right at the start you get a scence of Christmas time but the way it is shot is very realistic and leaves room for what is about to happen. Olympus is fallen titles appear in this scene with a kind of a musical tune

The next scene is a secret service officer dressed in black opens a door leading to where the president is with the first lady you see even more of a Christmas feel as there are decorations in the room and there is a very golden light filling the room making it look very inviting and homely. The president and other secret service agents are dressed in suits which suggest that there is some sort of meeting or dinner they are attending. There is a wide shot of outside that shows ‘the beast’ lining up along other presidential cars this shows the scale and size of moving potus. We see the outside of camp David residence which sets the scene further, the house is all lit up. There is no music but are real sounds like car engines. The next scene is in ‘the beast’ with potus and the first lady this is meant to show the president has he is traveling and what he is saying and how he feels about the upcoming dinner. There is a very dim light and there is only them speaking in the car very softly I think it gives a scence of security for the viewer. There is blinking lights behind to show the presidential travel vehicles there is hardly any image out of the windows because the travel is at night there is some mid shots of the car to continue the scence of travel in the snowy forest

 

 

Batman –

The opening scene to the dark night rises is a carm start where you see what look to be prisoners getting told to get one thing plane that is there then the plan is in the air it crosses vast amounts of forest land this scene is an establishing shot because it gives you an full idea of where the plane is , in the middle of nowhere leaving plenty of ideas open as to where of what is going on the colour of the sky seems to suggest the mood of the scenes that are about to happen this also could suggest the genre for the film . There is scenes in the plane that show a lot of movement there is a lot of camera witching in the plane due to the small filming area and the amount of actors that have to be in the shot at one time there is a few close ups on the main character.

as he hears a muffled but strong sound and is wondering why one of the characters is speaking in that way which suggests that the main evil character of the story is on the plane with them and that something is about to happen to the people of who that plane is controlled by.  This leads to one of the most famous scenes of the whole entire film where the evil character is revealed, the camera shot on this is a mid- shot which allows the viewer to see up close the persons head as the black hood is removed the face is revealed and the viewers see the iconic masked villain and head the very strange high pitched unusual voice that this mask creates. The characters seem shocked as this was the man they have been looking for but did not expect to see him is this way and even at this time. There are a few wide  shots in the plane that show the situation in side and what everybody is doing and how they are reacting to the situation. There is another wide angled shot from above the plane as it is flying over this shot and angle suggests straight away that the plane might not be alone in the air and that something is about to happen this is further emphasized by noises of another plane and then a bigger white plane is shown in the shot following above. There is further tension and dialoged between the two main characters in the plane mainly mid shots. There is a low wide shot from the higher plane where there are people that jump down on to the main plane. There is another mid shot, shot across the side of the plane showing people smashing the planes windows and attaching the plane to ropes. As the plane is tipped up by the higher plane they are another wide shot showing the plane’s wings being snapped off and the plane being put in a vertical position then there is famous shot here where the main evil character in the plan is stood on the seats at the top of the plane looking down at this point the back of the plain is blow off the camera angle where is a mid shot looking at the back of the plane. Mid and close up shots follow where the main character holds another person and then there is a high shot looking down at the two characters where by the plane it drops out of the air. The scene ends where you see a wide shot of the two characters being dragged by the higher plane. 

James bond – golden eye opening scene -

The opening scene starts with a plane appearing in the shot and then there is a panning zoom shot by the camera man following the plane over the Hoover dam which is directly opposite the camera shot the way in which the camera follows the plane suggests that the camera is mounted on a helicopter of some sort of flying vehicle because the position of the camera gets higher as the plane fly’s over the dam wall. after it is over the wall the camera starts to tilt towards the top of the dam wall the camera tilts as the camera plane gets closer to the dam wall suggesting there is going to be something happening there this shot cuts into a shot of a mid shot of a gate on the dam top opening the camera is pointed looking across the floor watching a man run in and across the dam top. There is an establishing panning shot looking down at the dam top watching the man run to the middle of the wall. There is three close up shots where he drops the rope on the path and then where he hooks the clip to the metal fence and where he attaches the rope clip to his boot all show the actions of the man but not him in the shot. There is a wide shot here where the camera is located at the bottom of the dam wall and quickly tilts up right to the top showing the height of the wall. The is a tilt high shot from above the man as he is about to jump over the wall. There is a follow tilting shot from the camera following the man as he descends down the wall. The scene as the man shoots a gun at the floor of the dam and starts to wheel the cable in. the angle for the camera here is a low high angled shot at him.