Research - Equilibrium

Analysis of opening scene scene of equilibrum:

• At 00.17 of the film we can see the title for the movie as being very plain and just bold letters. The director has used this font as it surgests that there is something very uniformed about this film, as latter we find out that all humans are repressed from their emotions this font surgests this by the dullness. Also the black background and white lettering could represent good conquering evil or even light comming out of darkness.

• Between 00.28 - 00.53 the director has put vidieos of past events such as the testing of a atom bomb, the destruction after the blits and also vidieo of the russian dictator stalin. The voiceover describes about a third world war and so these two features that this film is baced around civilisation post apocoliptic. 

• At 00.56 we see a view of a figure almost dancing but with two guns in his/her hands. The character is blacked out and you can only see a small bit of this empty room, this surgests that the film is baced around secrecy and the unknown as you cannot trully see the character.

• A medium cloes up is used of this character is used and has become less blacked out, this is too show the viewer that this man is a human but holding the guns infront of his face keeps the secrecy of him so the viewer is unable to know who he is and is distanced from him.

• 01:04 we see what looks like a building, however this is unclear. The importance of this building/structure is and so it is very ambiguius and the viewer is not clear as to what purpose this serves and so again this feeling of secrecy and unknown is seen.

• 01:07 is a medium long shot, this shot was used because it only shows the viewer these figurs getting out of a van and nothing els, again this is too show unknown as the viewer is still unaware of what is going on. Also the characters are all in black this surgest that they are the bad force of the film as they look very black and agressive.

• Between 01.19 - 01.21 the 180 degree rule is used as we see a camera angle pointing from the painting then from the guy looking at it. 

• 01.19 a medium cloes up is used. This is used to try and help the audience to empthise for him, as it is clear he is thinking of a loved one that may have died. This is the first frame in the film were any human emotion is seen.  

•   At 01.23 we see a room full of men with weponds and full of art work, this surgests that they are going against the law and that they hoarding the artwork.
  
  

  

  
  
• A feeling of fast pact action is created by the frames between 01.22 and 01.24 as the camera angle changes about three times in that short space of time, this gives the impression of danger and that something is going to happen very soon. It also makes the viewer anticpate what will happen next.

  

• The frame at 01.37 is a camera pan where the camera drops down to look up at the character, this gives the viewer an impression that this man is standing up for his belifs agains the rulling authorities.