The Film opens with an establishing shot showing ‘Gotham City’. This tells the audience exactly where they are and where the film is being set. The camera then slowly zooms in on a window in one of the buildings. This immediately alerts the viewer that this window has significant importance and we a reassured of this when eventually the window smashes and the camera switches to close up revealing a mobster holding a gun and firing a grapple wire to another building. Showing this early on in the film tells the audience straight away what the film is about and what the film is likely to carry on in to later on.
The camera then skips to long shot of a man the camera then zooms in on the mask he is holding. Again this shows the importance of object and highlights this to the audience. He then gets into a car that pulls up alongside him. The film then cuts back to the original two mobsters in a two shot of both characters sliding along the grapple wire to the next building. The camera then tilts downwards revealing how high up the action taking place is. The camera then shows the viewer an aerial master shot of both the characters sliding along the wire and showing the city in the back ground. This shot again emphasises to the viewer the immense height of the characters and the use of the aerial shot shows the vulnerability of the characters.
The next camera shot shows three different mobsters in the car. Various camera shots are used to show the convosation they are having for example over the shoulder shots and mid shots but all keeping with in the guidelines of the 180 degrees rule.
The final part of the opening scene shows the mobsters getting out the car and running into a bank. As the mobsters move around the bank the camera follows them. Here a steady cam is used to get a good quality, smooth shot that can move where ever the characters go.
By Matt Davison
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