The
first shot in X - Men : Days of Future Past we see a few red lights turn on in
an dark room. The red connotes danger, violence and action and the dark room
connotes mystery, death and danger. When the lights turn on weird sci-fi sound
effect is played. This diegetic sound effect hints to the audience that the
movie will contain unnatural things and will contain science fiction. We then
see a hatch open and three pods are dropped. This indicates to the audience
that this shot is taking place in a flying vehicle and something bad is going
to happen. The next shot is an extreme long shot of two flying vehicle dropping
the three pods. The lighting in this scene is very dark and blue and as the
pods hit the ground they make a loud thud sound effect. This sound effect was
possibly made in a Foley studio.
The
next few shots have been seamlessly edited so that the camera moves around past
the characters and through the ground to the floors below. This gives the
illusion that the scene takes place underground where there are multiple floors
but in reality it was filmed in one location. After the three pods hit the
ground, we get a close up shot of a man saying “they’re here!”. This suggests
that the pods are the antagonist and the other are the protagonists. In these
shots we a girl make a purple portal and they both teleport to the floor below.
This indicates that the movie will contain many characters lots of weird
powers. The non-diegetic music playing at this point has a fast beat to it
suggesting that something is about to take place and it also builds suspense as
the audience doesn’t know what is going to happen next.
In
this shot we see a man holding an alien weapon/gun and a close up shot of the
weapon/gun. Guns connote action and death implying that we are going to see
lots of those throughout the film. A bit later we see a high angle shot four
people - each looking terrified. As soon as the high angle shot began, the
music suddenly went quiet and we were only left with the diegetic sound of
something rumbling. The high angle shot of the group makes them look small,
weak and venerable.
We
see the camera truck right as it stays pointed at the group and we see one male
character turn him self into a metallic figure and another put himself on fire.
This suggest that something big is about to take place and they are preparing
for it.
Two
big figures then fall from the ceiling suggesting that these were in the pod at
the start of the film. A low angled shot is used to show the antagonist and
makes them look huge are more fearsome. As this huge fight scene is taking
place, two characters are running away from huge creatures. This indicates that
these two characters are important, and we can tell that are not fleeing
because of they are cowards as everyone is helping them to escape.
Soon
after another low angle shot of the creature grasping onto one of the
protagonist fist is shown. This makes the protagonist look insignificant
compared to the creature. This shot also denotes the creature turning into the
same material at the metallic person. This could imply that the creatures have
the ability to gain special powers off of their victims. As the creature turns
into a silver metallic material, a sound effect is played which sounds like
lots of pieces of metals colliding together.
With
the next two scenes we can see that the creatures have gained their victims
powers but swapped the powers between them. After doing this the protagonists
are grabbed buy the alien creatures and are killed. All the lighting in the
opening scene is dark and gloomy showing that the movie will contain danger,
death and mystery. Many of the sound
effects in these scenes are unusual and futuristic. This could hint that that
movie will be a sci-fi film as well as an action film.
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