Josh Pyne

Film Opening Analysis : The Avengers

Scene one

Lighting : Dark, this implies something devious is going on and that there is evil in the scene.

Editing : Slow pan of the camera, no sudden fast movements, this would make this scene an establishing shot. We can see oddly dressed figures and a planet in the background. This signifies it is a sci fi film.

Sound : We can hear a deep voice talking, which is most likely the character on screen. This means this is diegetic sound. There is also background music being played in a minor tone implying evil.

Lighting : Dark, this implies something devious is going on and that there is evil in the scene. The only light is a cube that is glowing blue implying that this cube has a lot to do with the plot.

Editing : the camera is still while the cube moves slowly through what seems to be space, there is no abrupt cut outs or ins, just fade ins and outs. This means the editing is slow paced.

Sound : We can hear a deep voice talking, which is most likely the character on screen. This means this is diegetic sound. There is also background music being played in a minor tone implying evil. There is also shouting in the background, which makes it sound a bit satanic.

Scene two

Lighting: Dark, nothing visible except mountains in the distance and a helicopter.

Editing : It quickly cuts into the helicopter after the slow shots in space (Graphic Match).

Sound : We can hear non diegetic background music, which is high pitched and fast indicating something is happening, and also we can hear diegetic sound. The sound of the helicopter passing by.

Scene three

Scene Four

Lighting : Still dark, but now there is a bit more light as we can see the SHIELD base. This signifies that something is going to happen (The sudden change in lighting).

Editing: The pan becomes a bit faster, this is now an establishing shot of the SHIELD base.

Sound : There is new non diegetic sound, the SHIELD theme is played to introduce SHIELD and to show something is going to happen.

Scene Five

Lighting : Still a bit dark, but there is more and more light in every next scene, indicating actions are being taken.

Editing : Editing becomes faster, match on action’s, close ups, medium close ups, medium longshots. Suddenly there is a lot of activity

Sound : the SHIELD theme is still playing. And we can hear diegetic sound from the characters footsteps and them talking in-between each other.