The Da Vinci Code

For the opening of our short film we have decided to do it in the genre of crime thriller, i have therefore watch the opening of a film in this genre, the Da vinci Code. The Film opens with computer generated titles which lead on to a long shot of a dark room with pictures in, you see the first man running into the room but you can only see the shadow of the second man, this makes him seem more intimidating to the audience and represents him in mysterious ways, this mysteriousness is also supported by the hooded cloak seen later on in the sequence.

Then we see a close up of the weapon the cloaked man is holding, until the man pulls down his when the gun the blurs and we can clearly see the mans face but the gun is still in the shot. The camera then zooms into the gun as it is cocked, This creates a suspense to the audience as the gun is then not pulled but instead we see a pan view of the building seeing through the glass building as the first man in the suit prays to god, this gives the impression that the audience as being able to be god, in the way he looks down on the characters.

The camera then has a close up to the first man in a suits face, showing his worried face the camera then cuts to a close up of the gun, which is then pulled leading to a medium shot of the man getting shot. The sequence then parallel edits between the man who has just been shot slowly dying and Tom Hanks character giving a speech