Research - Spider-Man

Analysis of the opening scene of Spider-Man:

• At 00.01 what the viewer see's is meant to be very ambiguous and so the viewer does not know what their looking at, it makes them try and think what it could be.

• 00.05 shows the first title in a white font this has a red shadow to it, this suggests spider man as the suit that spider man wares is red.

• At 00.08 we see what looks like a big metal bar smash the title out of the way, this could represent force against spider man or even a violence in the film.

• At 00.11 it becomes clear what the shapes were earlier, they were webs from a spiders web and so we can see how this relates to the film.

• 00.24 we see the background colour change from blue to black however the spiderwebs are still there this could suggest a battle in spider man himself between good and evil.

• The fact that the whole opening sequence is animated shows were the story comes from out of a graphic novel and put into a film so the credits are made to look like something out of the graphic novel.

• As the spiders web continues to twist and turn through the titles it comes two a green figure of a head at 01.28 this green figure is the super villain of the film.

• The spiders web finally gets to a view looking down onto sky scrapers, this suggests that the film will be based in this city.

• At 02.03 the camera seems to fly through this city much like spider man would when he is using his webs to swing from building to building.