Lucy-Opening 5 minutes:
The slow paced, mysterious non
diegetic soundtrack along with the dark blue colours and long shot showing the
constant division of cells creates a creepy atmosphere within the audience.
These few simple elements allow the audience to make the assumption that right
now the setting is inside the body of something because of the cell divisions
that are taking place however the eerie colours and the non-diegetic soundtrack
used still leave the audience wondering what is going on?
The ambient
sounds heard by the audience alongside the establishing shot of the natural
landscape showing a monkey drinking water from a lake shows the audience the early,
more natural stages of humanity. This is then followed be a tracking montage of
images showing the evolution of mankind. The montage concentrates on how busy
the world is today as shown by the quiet and serene diegetic sounds that were
heard in the first scene as compared to the city where the diegetic sounds are
much louder, for example: car horns. It is this along with the voiceover of the
monotone woman with very serious dialogue that gives the audience the idea of
how the woman speaking thinks about the world today.
The instant
cut from this montage to a close up shot of the American woman with an ignorant
facial expression in the foreground, along with the signs in the background
with writing in Chinese shows that the voiceover heard previously is linked to
this woman. Her facial expression, showing her day dreaming perhaps suggests
that what was being said during the montage was what she was thinking whilst
the other man spoke to her. As she then tries to walk away from the man once
his dialogue showed that he did not know the content of the briefcase that he
wanted her to deliver so desperately, a two shot shows him pulling her back
along with persuasive dialogue from the man however a high pitched, more
shocked and resentful body language from the woman showed the audience that she
did not want to do this job. This may foreshadow danger that is yet to come in
the film and engages the audience, filling them with shock and disturbance
because despite her resentment and refusal, he forces her to do the job.
The Maze Runner-Opening 5 minutes:
The loud,
diegetic sound along with the completely blacked out screen instantly grabs the
audience’s attention as they are unaware of what is actually happen because all
they can hear is the loud clanking of an elevator shaft moving very quickly. The
sudden diegetic sound the male character makes allows the audience to
understand that he is struggling to breath shocks the audience because it is
such a sudden and extreme change in diegetic sound. His fast and heavy
breathing along with the long shot showing the weak but desperate body language
from the young man trapped in a cage type, moving shaft shows that he is
terrified and is panicking. This intrigues the audience as it makes them wonder
whether his attempt of escape is going to better his terrible situation.
The change of
lighting (low key to high key) shows the audience that his scary journey in
this cage had come to an end. The opening of the cage showing daylight which is
then followed by a medium close up of the mans confused facial expression and
wet costume suggests that this man has been taken and something traumatic has
happened to him which is why he is left in such a concerning state. The low angle long shot then showing a group
of men looking down at this man who is in this cage and laughing as though he
is an animal that has been captured shows the power difference that stands
between these two different types of characters. They look down at him because
he is new to the land that they have been living on. This is something that helps
keep the audience engaged because they still want to figure out who these new
men that have been introduced are, where this man has been taken and what all
of these people are here for; a variety of different questions start to build
up in the audiences heads.
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