James Bond: Quantum of solaces: Openeing Scene Analysis

       The films starts with a the MGM clip and the Columbia pictures logo. By showing you had these two big distributors help with the production of this film it already gives the audience high expectations. 

     The second shot is a long shot of they location they are in. The mountains and the tropical looking ocean is a typical location for like James Bond to be in. In a majority of his other films when he has been abroad in a exotic location this normally means he is on a mission, this makes the audience wonder what he might be doing. As the camera zooms in to the mountain a  bridge starts to appear. There are quick cuts to a medium shot of nice car speeding. 

    As the scene progresses we get to see more of the car racing through this bridge, swerving traffic at high speeds with similar cars close behind chasing. Although the audience may not of seen him yet they can tell that the one in the nice car trying to get away will be James Bond. We see ,what the audience will relate to as, the antagonist hanging out of the window trying to shoot at James Bond this is the first bit of proper action in this film leaving the audience prepared for what the film will present. 

  The action goes on with the antagonist getting more frustrated that our protagonist (James Bond) is getting away he shoots a wheels of a lorry in attempt to stop him. This shows the audience how evil and determine they are to stop him that they would do anything. However it also makes the audience think what may he have done or taken from them for them to be wanting to stop him so bad.

  When James Bond comes roaring out of the tunnel with the antagonists still behind it makes the audience feel that he has almost got away as he escaped the lorry although we know that the chase is still on. As he carries on down the road there is a second lorry coming down in the same direction as him, this builds drama they use  a close up over the shoulder s shot to show the emotion on James Bonds face so the viewer can see that even he has fear making this a tense moment also to make the audiance feel as if they are in the back of the car with James driving.  But as James Bond always does he slip out of it and takes out one of the antagonists that was behind him in a crash.      

  

Scream: Opening Scene Analysis

   I like the opening scene to the film scream as straight away we can tell that it is a horror. We get to meet the antagonist of the film although we dont get to see him this builds suspense and intrigue.
One of the ways i can tell its a horror is because in this clip we see many conventions of a typical horror film. For example the helpless teen girl left home alone. When she tells the antagonist that her 'boyfriend will be home soon and he will beat you up' this reinforces her helplessness as she is calling on another male to protect her showing that the male has dominance in this film.
   
    The loaction of this film is in a large dark house at night time. The house being dark and large adds a lot of mystery becuase you cant see very well and the house is so big the antagonist could be anywhere. The connotations of dark is being in fear and scary so we can relate that to the way the character is feeling when she is speaking to the antagonist on the phone saying that he is watching her also you normally find large houses in quite remote areas meaning that she may be far from help making the audiance feel even more worried for her. The contrast between the lighting in and out of the house represance the differeance in characters.  If you pay attention at the start the house is really bright but as the scene becomes scarier the light becomes dark untill its almost pitch black. It's really dark out side where the antagonis as he is evil and that what the audiance would relate to scary and evil where and protaganist is in more of a  lights we represent this with good and saftey as in the dark you dont know and you get the fear of the unknown.

   The dialogue of this clip starts of being quite friendly and slightly flirtatious but as she gets find out more about the man she was speaking on the phone as the the scence becomes more tense and she finds out the real motive of the call. The chosen music in the background adds to the effect of the scene adding suspence and  tenstion making the audiance become more worried for the teen girl.