How the Technical codes create meaning in an introduction to a opening sequence

By Gabriel Davidoff

In cinematography, a low-angle shot, is a shot from a camera angle positioned low on the vertical axis, anywhere below the eye line, looking up. Psychologically, the effect of the low-angle shot is that it makes the subject look strong and powerful.

In photography, a wide shot typically shows the entire object or human figure in relation to its surroundings; Used to show the background and the person.

The arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play

Make- up in films is used to make the actors seem more believable to the plot of the film.

Costumes are used to make the characters in the film seem more realistic and believable for the plot of the film

Sound is displayed in films through dygeticand non dygetic sounds, these may include background music, grunts and alarms to name a few; They add to the effect of the film.

This type of sound is sound that only the audience can hear and not the actors, for example a musical soundtrack during a montage.

This type of sound is sound that both the audience and characters in the film can hear. The characters would react to these sounds unlike non-dygetic sound

Film editing is the art, technique, and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence. Similarly to edit you put pieces of a film together, cut off film slates and edit dialogue scenes.

A common convention to maintain continuity, a character looks at something and in the next shot we see what they are looking at

Where the camera cut from one subject to another back and forth to follow the flow of a dialogue