The opening shot of the scene starts off with a over-the-shoulder shot which switches to a close up shot to create tension between the two characters. This tension is broken when the room is raided by guards, the camera shots and use of the non-diegetic sound used in this part of the scene make the guards seem very aggressive and in control of the situation. As the X-Men feel threatened and clueless of what to do in this situation, one of the characters seems to make a mistake in which the other characters aren’t pleased about and try to stop him, but it’s too late. Quicksilver decides to take it into his own hands. As everything is launched into the air, quicksilver slows down time, and puts some sort of device in his ears, which seems like headphones due to the music starting as he puts them in, although the music is a non-diegetic sound in the scene. The editing in this scene is brilliant, everything is almost brought to a halt by Quicksilver’s powers. He runs around the room messing around with the security guards and preventing any of the other X-Men getting hurt, meanwhile the mise-en-scene together with the non-diegetic music make this scene presents a pleasant and calm ambients which leads to the sense that Quicksilver has everything in control whilst having fun in this situation. Once it’s over everything along with the security guards ends up on the floor and all the X-Men look at each other with confusion and relief. A over-the-shoulder shot is used to show the superiority of Quicksilver in this scene and then the X-Men carry on with their quest.

The opening scene starts off with an establishing shot of a building that resembles a bank, during this shot you can hear a high pitch noise, which is the noise of a cars brakes as it pulls up in front of the camera giving us a close up shot of the rims of the car. The shot then changes to Baby turning on a mp3 player, which starts the non-diegetic sound of the scene, although it’s also what the character is listening to in the scene. The intro of the song coincides with the introduction of the 4 characters at the rhythm of the beat. Once they exit the car, the music kicks into action. This scene displays a very good use of sound.

A large portion of this opening scene consists of Baby grooving in his car to his music, giving off the feeling of a very open and careless personality. His little show comes to an end when a cop car speeds past him, a pan shot is used to show the speed at which the car is going. Once the cop car drives past the non-diegetic sound comes to a halt to create a sense of suspense. As he looks through the window and sees the other three characters robbing the bank, the music escalates creating tension, until the music goes into full force and the getaway scene starts.

The getaway scene is mostly made up of various different high speed shots and cuts, such as tracking shots of Baby’s car. The sound is a mix between the diegetic sound, for example the sirens from the cop cars and the high pitch sound from the car drifting, and the non-diegetic music that is still playing. Once they escape the cops, they change car and most of the characters, apart from baby change outfits. Baby keeps is glasses on throughout the whole scene giving a mysterious sensation about him.

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The opening scene of Pan’s Labyrinth starts off with a over-the-shoulder shot of a book whos pages that before the characters very own eyes starts to manifest images creating its own story and instructions of how to guide yourself through Pan’s Labyrinth. The next shot is a long shot to give a idea of the characters sorroundings. The main character of this fantasy-based scene is a girl around the age of 12, She is dressed in a faded away green coloured dress, suggesting innocence and kindness. As she enters a extreme long shot is used to show the greatness of the size of the labyrinth. After some time in the labyrinth a close up of the hourglass is used to create tension in the scene. Up till now the non-digetic sound used in the scene, along with the heavy breathing as the digetic sound, is a eary, hollow wind sound to create a sensation of fear and tension.

As the girl approaches the table full of food, the non-digetic sound changes to the soft sound of a harp playing as if to lure or temptate the character to eat some of the food on the table and even though she knew not to, she did. Once she realizes what she has done, multiple different shots in a short period of time are used whilst she is running down the labyrinth to create tension and leave you at the edge of your seat. The music also intensifies during these shots to creat yet more tension. Once she manages to escape and close the window into the labyrinth every aspect returns to a more calm state and the scene ends.

The opening shot of this scene expresses a lot in such a simple shot. The scene opens with a low angle shot of the commander, Oskar Schindler. Since this shot is looking up to the commander it gives off the sensation of superiority over the other characters located on the street. Although the shot shows his power, his facial emotions show a different story, he seems like what he is witnessing is distressing and upsetting towards him and his wife, and that there is nothing that they can do to help the distressing situation enrolling in front of their eyes.

The next shot is a estableshing shot looking down on the street, as if it were Oskar Schindler’s point of view. The shot highlights one character, the girl in red, on a street submerged in warfare and havock. Despite all of the mayhem, she seems fairly calm walking down the street. This feeling is given off due to the sound used in the scene. Although the digetic sound consists off gunshots and screams, the non-digetic sound, which is in the girls head, is a german fulk song used to block out the digetic sound sorrounding her.

The commander traces her path through the destroyed city until she is seen running into a building and the commander then losses sight of the girl and leaves the area. The rooms in the building are destroyed, which resembles the power and destruction caused by the Germans during this period of time, she then is seen hidding under the bed while covering her ears and that is how the scene ends.

Point Breaks opening title credits starts with an establashing shot of the shoreline, as the waves are breaking in and out of the shot the credits used with a chuncky font cross the screen from left to right, in which the next credit starts off from where the last one finished. As this happens we zoom out on two transparent words in a bold font that cross each other to form the title of the film “Point Break”. As the rest of the credits are presented various slow-mo action shots of surfers performing maneuvers are used, which then switch scenes to a character carrying out his training as it seems like he works for the FBI. These cuts between these different style shots seem like they are trying to represent some sort of similarity between his job and the surfing world. The shots of the surfers are shot in very warm colours where as the shots of the charcter during training are shot in dark, merki colours, as if to show the mindset he has towards surfing, which is a admiring perspective towards the sport. Together with the music blending in with the sound of the waves and all the other characteristics mentioned before, the opening title credits clearly give of the sensation that we are about to watch a action/adventurous film.

The first shot of the opening scene begins with a tracking shot of the ‘Gods’ desk, we get a glimpse of the man and he is wearing a bandanna around his neck this suggests he is from the eastern hemisphere. The camera then changes to a point of view shot and we can see the man is using a fountain pen to write, this also suggests this is set in the olden times rather than the modern day. As the man is writing on the paper there is use of diegetic sound as we can hear the fountain pen glide smoothly along the paper. The camera then moves to an establishing shot of the room, the decor in the office they are in clearly shows it is set to look like an old Greek-like setting; this is using effects of mise-en-scene to create this effect on the viewers. The lighting in the room is very low-key which creates suspense for the audience. The low-key lighting is used to make the scene more dramatic and filled with tension and suggests something bad is going to occur. During Mad Sweeney’s flashback a aerial shot is used that gives viewers a deeper and wider understanding of what is happening below, both literally and metaphorically. As the next flashback occurs of the battle that Mad Sweeny had to endure a wide range of shots are used from close up shots to tracking shots to show that there is a lot of action and fighting going on in the scene, which also matches the loud abrupt sounds that also signifies the same. Al thought there is another point I would like to add about the scene, and that is the slow-mo, There are various shots that use slow-mo and slow paced sounds to make the scenes more dramatic.

The director of this film decided to use a medieval theme in this scene, as shown in the first shot which gives us a long shot to gives us a idea of the area. Set in a joust arena, a pan shot is used to show a knight galloping down the runway of the arena. The close up shot of the free folks gives off emotion to the shot and involves the audience in the scene. As Ser Loras presents Ygritte with a flower, an over the shoulder shot is used to show the interaction in between the two, which is then followed up by a establishing shot which helps the audience place the characters in there setting. As both knights set up for the battle, a mid shot is used on both characters to familiarize with the characters and their motivations, which is then followed up by low angle shot of the horses hoofs to add tension to the shot. As the battle starts various fast shots are used to show action in the scene and once the knight is defeated close up shots are used to show the different reactions of different characters. The use of the long shot on Ser Loras is used in a way to show his victory. After the fight in between the two nights, they use a over the shoulder shot of the knight with the king at the top to represents his power due to the king being at a higher level and the camera looking up towards him. The sound in the whole scene is very scruffy to show excitement and tension.