'Inside Man' opening analysis/ Bradley Mills

The Antagonist Character speaks directly to the audience, telling the audience about his plans to commit a bank robbery, the character is well spoken and confident giving the viewer the feeling that he is intelligent and well organised. He is in Key lighting against a black background to force the audience to pay attention to him, He stares at the camera making eye contact with the camera at all times in this sequence suggesting his confidence and dominant attitude are key features of his character his body language is very controlled and intimidating adding to the introduction of the character as a threatening character. A montage of clips from the 'prison' establish his villainous character. The background slowly appears as the character fishiness's his speech and this shot ends with a fade transition suggesting a change in time.

Non diegetic sound is used in the sound track the music is contrapuntal in the way it contradicts the picture the audience is viewing, the music is a generic convention of a Bollywood picture with Indian vocalists, where as the establishing shots display New York city in a Montage of shots, The first shot of this sequence is a slow tracking shot which focuses of a mysterious black van, the camera then rises upwards to give the audience a better view of what the van is doing as it drives further away from the camera. Close ups of artefact's are displayed in montages displaying an equilibrium and establishing setting, after these close ups the camera cuts to tracking shots and point of view shots of the Black van to suggest there is a significance to this vehicle, there is a shot where the character in the painting suit gets into the van and drives froward as the vehicle moves further away the camera tilts up to reveal a bridge which could suggest that this black van is going to effect the environment and surroundings around it, this shot also links into the close up shots of the artefact's showing that the Van is getting closer to this significant area using both shots in one.

As the van drives across the bridge there is a worms eye view shot of the bridge followed by a tracking shot of the van from the front, these shots link to the previous shot by revealing a location by tilting up to the bridge and then showing the van on the bridge in the next series of shots. The shots of the van are separated by more  environmental shots such as innocent pedestrians walking in the streets re establishing the sense of equilibrium only to be disrupted by another character in the painters outfit.

To end the sequence the audience are gradually let into the mysterious van but the characters identity's are covered up by the white outfits and black sunglasses.

The aspects I would like to replicate for my Thriller opening are the way in which the environment and a mysterious object collide using cross editing, there is a very quick pace after the long cuts characters speech in the opening sequence which creates contrast and an interesting visual sequence.

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