Analysis of Opening Sequence “Falling Down”

This film opening is a thriller and it has helped with creating our film opening i looked at the camera shots and movements, music and sound used and how the characters were established. The director Joel Schumacher used  a lot of extreme close ups this was to build up tension Close ups were used also to show the frustration in the characters’ face to show the audience how the character was feeling. The director also used Pans to establish the surrounding to the audience. The camera shots kept changing at a fast pace this was to show the audience how frustrated the character really was. The music chosen helped build up tension in the scene this also showed how frustrated the character was as the music also sped up and became louder. The sounds used in the opening sequence made the scene more real this made the audience feel like they was sitting in the traffic as well. The character was established by different shots used there was no speech but the shots used made it obvious that this character was going to significant.