Research - The Hurt Locker

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Analysis of the opening scene of The Hurt Locker

• Between 00.00 and 00.08 the quote 'The rush of battle is often a petent and lethal adiction, for war is a drug'. This immediately gets the viewer of the film to think about what it would be like to actully be a soilder and how being a soilder would effect you mentaly.

• At 00.9 the quote fades away leaving only 'war is a drug', this gives the viewer an insight as to what might happen in the film. That mayby a soilder fights and the fighting becomes a part of him (simmilarly to a drug addiction) and so he does not want to stop almost like the war is the persons life.

• 00.15 is a pov shot of what looks like a military robot, however the viewer can only see the ground that the robot is filming and so the viewers are kept in suspense which is why this shot was used.

• Through out the opening scene when we are not in the pov of the robot the filming is very shaky, this has been done on purpose as it is made to look like amature filming mayby a doctumentary of some sort, it even makes it feel more relistic to the viewers as it is much more like they are there in the action.

• Also throughout the opening scene the camera does various zooms both in and out, again this is to try and give the impression of amature filming such as a documentary. 

• The extreme close up shot at 01.38 shows the to the audience that the character is consentrating hard and may also be underpresure. At this frame the director is also obaying the rule of thirds. 

• The camera angle at 01.49 gives the view of what the soilder can see. It is although you are looking at the screen that the soilders are using to control the robot this gives the audience a feeling of how hard and how much presure these soilders are under.

• The extreem cloes up of one of the soilders eyes at 01.56 and then a long shot of a woman across the street at 01.57 shows that the soilder is looking at her and is looking around the surounding area, this gives the impression of danger as the soilders are constantly on look out.

• The cutting back and forth of the robot and the soilders shows how the soilder is controlling the robot and so the viewer can see who is controlling the robot all the time.

• The frames between 04.29 - 04.32 shows how the director has efectivly used match on action.