A canted angle shot is first used in Guardians of the Galaxy to give the impression that you are floating in the weightlessness of space. Within this shot we see several planets in the background. These are genre indicators as they suggest the film will adventure. As the camera rotates clockwise, we see the text ’26 Years Later’ - telling the audience that this movie is set in the future and will most likely contain futuristic/science fiction things. In this shot we can hear loud thunder and it also shows lightening within the clouds of the planet.
The
next two shots denote a small spaceship like vehicle landing on a rocky planet
and someone or something walking on the foggy and rocky planet. The landing of
the spaceship uses an extreme long shot to show the landing and setting of the
opening scene. Next is a long, high angled shot of someone walking in the fog.
This makes him or her look mysterious as we don’t know what they’d be doing by
themselves on a rocky and windy planet. The lighting in the opening scene also
makes them look mysterious as the lighting is a dark, low key lighting. There
are several sounds playing during these opening scenes. The diegetic sounds
that both the audience and the character can hear are the thunder, rain and
wind. The non-diegetic sound is the music soundtrack playing in the background
and this is used to build suspense.
Several
seconds later, we are shown a close up shot of the person by themselves. We can
see that they are wearing a mask and the eyes are glowing bright red. The makes
the audience curious to find out who it are. The bright red eyes connote danger
and evil suggesting that this character is evil however we are still unsure who
this person is. We then see them pulling out a futuristic device. As he tries
to turn it on, it makes several electronic sound effects.
When
it is turned on, at first it looks like a torch but then we find out that it is
like a hologram torch, supporting the futuristic and sci-fi genre. We then get
a bird’s eye view shot of the person walking with the holographic torch, and in
the hologram, we can see people walking across - as if they actually there but
cannot be seen without the hologram. We also hear the faint sound of people
talking. This could have been the people in the hologram who are now gone.
In
this we can see a long shot of a small girl playing with a dog in the hologram
as the person walks up to it. This could suggest that the place the person is
in was once run by people but has been abandoned, maybe due to catastrophic
events. This can also hint towards the movie containing action.
The
person then walks for a while then we get a medium up shot of them. They then
press a small button on the side of their head and the helmet slowly faded
away. Now we finally see the main characters face for the first time.
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