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media presentation-opening scene By immy m
What narrative is given to us and from this opening scene what do we expect the rest of the films narratives to be? • In this film we get the sense that the narrative is war and going to fight for your country however there are many subgenres aswell, in this film being • Freidnship. .comradery .mission .mystery. .protection .realism. .tension .battle .violence. .gory. .exhsausted
How is the genre of the film set up in the opening scene..? The genre of the film being war is set up in the opening scene,particularly through the set. For example, the movie opens with an open. Field in which it changes to two soldiers lying up against a tree, these men are in soldier uniform and look beyond exhausted. As the opening scene goes on, the two main. Soldiers get up and go on a walk towards the sarjants office, while they are walking we see the ww1 like trenches with all the mud, injured people and soldiers layed out, sitting and standing up In them, we even see some of the soldiers go off to battle. Therefore I believe as an audience member that the genre of war is set up very well through the set.
Who is the target audience for this film? • I would say an older audience ranging from the ages 18-60 • White race dominated as majority of cast are white. • Very heterosexual dominated as no other relationships mentioned or shown apart from one between girl and boy. • Male dominated as it is a war movie full of action, and it is a full male cast!
How many characters are introduced and what do we know about them? • In the opening 3 minutes of this film, the audience are only introduced to two characters, these characters are both soldiers fighting in war, they are not high up and we can tell they are exhausted however are determined to go on this mission they are talking about. However as an audience member I feel that in the first 3 minutes we do not get to learn much about the characters or what their intentions are we don’t even learn their names; however this is quite clever as it leaves it open for the audience to interpretate. We also have two very different characters introduced In this scene, one soldier is very happy and chatty and seems to be quite calm and collective about everything. Whereas the other soldier does not seem so calm and is very. Quiet, and determined to succeed in his job.
Key moments of sound and camera work sound Camera work • There is a long diegetic sound in the intro when the two soldiers are lying down in the field, it is a weird almost uncomfortable series of notes playing whilst the soldiers get up and ready to complete their task. The sound almost connotes the eeriness of war and how they never know what is going to happen. • It is clever as soon as the film starts it montages into a field, which is beautiful and full of flowers, it then slowly zooms out of this field and zooms back in and shows the two main characters (soldiers) sleeping against the tree. This camera work is very clever as it is almost creating a false reality of war at the beginning when is shows the pretty field, however it quickly snaps out of that when it zooms into the soldiers.
conclusion In conclusion I think this is a good opening sequence, particularly when the whole fiklm has been filmed in one shot, however I feel we did not get to know the characters at all and we were made to think for ourselves from this opening sequence, which sometimes many people don’t like. However overall it is a very clever and well done opening sequence
