Friday, 11 September 2015

Batman The Dark Knight opening scene features/angle shot details:


This scene starts off with a city landscape on a sunny day with the camera zooming in on a large building , This draws the audience into thinking the action is going to start shortly and happens to have something to do wth the large building. This shot is an arielshot and also is an establishing shot illustrating to the audience the first setting.
When the first explosion happens , an over the shoulder high angle mid shot is used over the villans shoulder to show us more of what the character is doing.
When the next character is waiting on the street with his back to the camera , a longshot is used which shows the back of the gunman with his mask off and is still turned away from the camera. This draws in the audience as we dont know who this character is yet as we cannot see his face. Also his mask is obviously a clown mask which illustrates horror , fear and negativity.
When all 3 men are in the car - an over the shoulder shot is used showing where they're going and is telling us a robbery is about to take place as all three men are wearing clown masks and one of them has a gun loaded.
As the women in the bank has her hands startled up in fear when the robbery takes place , another over the shoulder shot is used allowing the two characters to be in the same shot at the same time.
Finally , a longshot is used showing the bus smashing into the bank with the money in the way, the camera angle allows the audience to look up at the mighty powering bus as it kills one of the clown masked characters in its way.
 Overall this scene is very action packed and is violent at most times but in my opinion , this scene is incredibly well done and is definitely one of my favourite scenes of all time.