The amazing spider man 2 opening film analysis
Analysed the first 2 minutes
The amazing spider man 2 opens
with a non-diegetic sound of a church bell ringing combined with upbeat action
music, whilst the audience sees a black screen with a red spider on it fade
into a tracking shot of the character falling from the sky. It then switches
from a number of high and low angle shots to show the character breezing and
flipping through the air magically using web shooters to swing from building to
building. The music continues with a combined sound of the main character
screaming with joy and some off screen sounds of the cars honking and moving in
the city of New York. The audience then see a point of view shot where the
character is flying through the air, very unrealistically, this is merged with
swooshing sounds which would have been enhanced to create more tension and
excitement for the audience. The camera then swaps to a long shot to show the
character using the web shooters from his hands to swing from building to
building. This intense and exciting first 40 seconds highlight that this film
links to the genre of Action and Adventure. The camera then switches to a wide
shot to show a helicopter following Spiderman through the city for a brief
second combined with the diegetic sound of the helicopter and the continued non
diegetic background music. It then shows a low angle shot of spider man flying
down almost towards the camera, this shows his power and dominance in the scene
already. Whilst this is happening there
is a voice over off some sort of news report stating how there is a police
chase going on.
A wide angled shot shows a
large van crashing and exterminating through a set of cars and pieces of rubble
going everywhere with additional enhanced diegetic sounds of the cars smashing
into one another and glass hitting the floor. The camera shifts to a close up
of a bald character, dressed in black and wearing gold chains around his
fingers and neck with a distinctive tattoo across his forehead driving the van
aggressively shouting and laughing. This character meets the description for a
stereotypical convict/ prisoner. The camera pans up the vehicle with enhanced
sounds of the car zooming through the busy traffic streets. The audience then
sees 3 short shots of men dressed in all black carrying guns running across the
roofs of the moving vehicles. It then shifts back to show a close up shot of the
driver once again however this time his emotions show more infuriation and
hatred as he pursues to carry on driving recklessly. We then see a wide angled
shot of the van crashing through two police cars and an extreme close up shot
of the front wheel driving over the police car, smashing through the windows
and ultimately crushing the car. During this there is a mixture of enhanced
diegetic and non-diegetic sounds of glass smashing, tires screeching and cars
honking.
The camera then switches back
to Spiderman where it shows him once again flying through the air and swinging
from building to building however this time the camera follows him in a slow
motion to focus on his presence it also highlights to the audience that he is
going to be a crucial part of this film. This is combined with an off screen
sound of a civilian shouting “Spider man” in a relived way as he is hopefully
there to help. It then shows a wide shot of Spiderman sitting in the villain’s
window talking to him sarcastically about how he is going to save the day.
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