Action film opening analysis's

To help us get ideas for our own opening, we have been watching other action film openings and analysing them, to see what techniques they have used and how they have drawn the audience in.
To analyse them we have focused on 4 main areas:
  - Mis-En-Scene - everything in shot, costumes, props, lighting etc
 - Editing - the pace of the scene and how this affects the overall mood
 - Camera - the camera angles used and the affect they have
 - Sound - there are 2 types of sound :
    - Diagetic - sounds that are real, that the characters can hear e.g. footsteps, wind etc.
    - Non-Diagetic - added sounds, that characters can't hear e.g. background music, voiceovers
The five action films that we have analyised are Salt, Lethal Weapon, Casino Royale, The Bourne Supremacy and Law Abiding Citizen - these are all popular action films, but from different times, for example, Lethal Weapon was realeased in 1987 , whereas Salt was realeased this year (2010)
Below are our analysis's of these films:

Lethal Weapon (1987) 

Salt (2010)

 

 Casino Royale (2007)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

 Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

After analysing a wide range of action films, our group created a mind map about what was included in them to help us create an opening of our own including some of these conventions. In the mind map we explored different areas of an action film, which we ought to consider when creating our short film. this is shown below: