Student Film Opening Detailed Analysis

Genre
The genre in this film opening is clearly action, as throughout the clip guns and violence is used and portrays two characters fighting for a certain item. This opening sequence is good as it immediately attracts the audience attention by using a text on a phone as a 'lure' into the two characters arguing and fighting. It is clearly shown throughout the opening clip the genre is action because of the events that take place.

Editing
In my opinion, the editing in this is spectacular, especially in the first transition from when he is on top of the building in London to then switching to when he gets on the ground floor outside.

They used a lot of cross cuts in the piece and gave the main character more prevalence. This is obviously to tell which characters had more relevance to others.

Sound
They used a lot of dialogue in this, but from the first minute or so, they just used tense music to immediately grab the audiences attention and build up the tension in the clip, they then start talking/arguing about a disagreement. This gives the audience a sense of clarity between the characters and finding out which ones are the good ones and bad ones.

Camera Angles
In my opinion they could have used a wider range of different camera angle seeing as most of their shots were just medium shots of the people. Their first shot was an establishing shot which look astonishing, but their skills around the camera were average, as the same shot was used regularly throughout the piece.

Mise
Their choice of mise was very wisely chosen, as the clothing that was used for each character corresponded to their role perfectly. The bad guys wore full blown suits to show their dominance and power of the guy on his own in casually worn clothes. The lighting was quite dull and dark throughout the piece to give that tense effect off to the audience. The location in the car park could have changed seeing as they wanted to build up tension, where they could have filmed it in a much scarier place than just under a car park.


Titles
The titles in this clip are very basic, but used in italic font. This could be a representation of the plot going sideways. They used a white colour onto the titles to make it clearer to see to the audience. In my opinion I really like the basic look of it as it doesn't stand out, but it's looks slick enough when you want to look at it.

Character
The characters both have the typical view of good and bad, they all possess the same body language and tension as if they are being watched. They are basically all wearing the same clothes meaning they all have something in common, the bad guy plays a very good part in his stubborn emotion and the good guy has an arrogant up front kind of personality.

This will help us when creating our film as we can learn from the mistakes that this film had, and use that to make sure we don't do what they did in ours. We can use their strengths like good transitions to make our film flow as perfectly as theirs did.