media studies – 2009-2011

Halloween

Halloween’s opening sequence is mainly made up of a long POV shot, the establishing shot is of a detatched house which instantly looks mysterious and creepy, the character then approaches the house still with a POV shot which is moving up and down as the character walks, the character then moves around to the side of the house and looks through a window to see a girl and a boy on a sofa, they then move upstairs, the male then exits the house and the character enters into the house and moves to the kitchen still all in a POV shot, he then takes a knife from the drawer, at this stage you get a view of how tall you would expect the character to be as he looks like he towers over the drawer which you would expect to be a fully grown male, the character then moves up the stairs with his knife, as he enters the room the girl turns around and sees the character who is about to knife her. The character then knifes the girl vigourously and then leaves the house, still all in a POV shot, as the character goes outside you see his father say ‘michael’ and it is revealed that the character is around an 7 year old boy. Throughout this whole sequence there is a soundtrack playing, this soundtrack fits the genre well as it is very mysterious and makes you think something is going to happen.

Casino Royale title sequence

It opens in the traditional bond way, with bond appearing in the middle of the circle then turning and firing the gun, at this point a blood effect runs down the screen and from that the opening credits begin with ‘Albert R Broccoli’s EON Productions LTD presents’ then after that there is many visual effects going on and ‘Daniel Craig’ appears on the screen. The song You know my name by Chris Cornell has been playing since Bond fired the gun shot at the start, it is quite a fast paced song which fits the speed of which the sequence is running at. After the title of the film is introduced the focus is diluted on the credits as there is alot of action going on in the background as they are rolling, it then continues for another couple of minutes of visually pleasing Bond actions with the credits rolling, as it reaches the end Daniel Craigs face is shown which then turns to a silhouette and then it breaks up and covers the screen in black and this is the end of the sequence, at this point the song also finishes.

RockNRolla

This sequence opens up with a pan across some large room which appears to be a warehouse, after it has panned it stops and the warner bros. logo appears like it has been spray painted onto a wall, after this there is more camera movement and it appears at another wall which then Dark Castle Entertainment appears at this stage, after another couple of seconds movement it stops and Warner Bros. Pictures Presents appears then again the same for Dark Castle Entertainment, it then moves on to say ‘A Guy Ritchie Film’ the screen then turns black then gradually fades back in and the camera starts zooming into a character which has appeared and shows him doing drugs which sets the tone for the rest of the film fitting the genre, after this there is a very fast paced section showing alcohol sex and violence again setting the tone of the film.