Blitz: Opening Scene Analysis

     In the first shot we see (Jason Statham) the main antagonist of the the film laying on a sofa with a birds eye view his whole body. Strait away the audience will know that he will be the main antagonist as he is a well known actor who does a lot of crime thrillers. There is low key lighting and the non-dietetic music playing creating a sad atmosphere and already creates some enigmas with in the audience to what may of happened the night before? the first thing he does as he wakes up is pour him self a cup of whisky connoting that he may be trying to get something of his mind.

   The diagetic sound of the men's muffled voice coming from outside gets his attention. There is an over the shoulder shot of the Jason Statham looking out the window, its night time and there are three men trying to rob a car. This is the first indicator that he is the antagonist has he grabs his bat and goes out to stop the robbers.  A long shot shows him walking toward the first set of protagonists as they try rob the car it also shows the audience that they are down a dark side road. As one of the men put a knife to him you can see the very well known London red bus drive past establishing that this film is set in London. This along with the fighting that is going on indicates that this film is a crime thriller. During the fights there are a lot of fast paced editing to create excitement with in the audience. The next shot after the fight is the long shot in the same angle as before but this time all the crooks are on the floor and the antagonist (Jason Statham) standing above them after beating all three men up showing his dominance.

  As he starts walking away after his short dialog loud non-diagetic fast pase high tempo electronic music starts playing, this music makes the character look cool and more action focus. A quik cut is used on the drop and the titles are shown screen, the titles are fast pace and constantly moving making the audiance more exicted for the film a head.