Monday 28 January 2013

The Dark Knight Rises
The beginning of the film starts off with the company and production logos. 
The music is incidental which creates a mysterious and spooky atmosphere. Ice breaking, batman sign coming out of the ice, coming back to life/from the dead.  
Sound bridge, heard the voice before the actual scene fade to black which signals the end of one chapter to another, the end of batman's last mission and now a new story is beginning.Director, film crew and film name are not mentioned because Christopher Nolan wants to challenge the codes of title sequence and because the film is that well known Christopher Nolan didn't feel the need to include it. Low angle shot of the man front the CIA (an American version of MI6)3 men wearing black hoods, the black is associated withe evilness, power and mystery. The hoods are used to cover the men's identity. Since 2000 hoods had received a negative image by been seen as trouble making. The young man who has the un-groomed, eastern European gangster look which re enforces the negative trouble maker look. The incidental music as the hooded men and the young man are on scene creates the feeling of tension, as the music builds the tension and action on screen builds with it. An Aeriel shot as the plane flies though the mountains indicates to the audience how deserted they are. The Aeriel shot is one of Christopher Nolan signature filming techniques. The 3 hooded men are positioned on the floor of the aeroplane in the next shot, the CIA man standing above them the high angle shot gives the impression the hooded men are now powerless and gives the man from the CIA more power and control. The non-diegetic voice coming from Bane is layered and edited with puts more emphasis on the mask and makes his voice sound inhuman like. On the removal of the hood, the camera is positioned as a low angle shot so that is now Bane looks like he is now in power slightly and more dominance over the man from the CIA. The extreme shot, reestablishes the shot. The diagetic sound of the drums creates momentum.

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