Analysis of Film Opening: Action

Watchmen
Just a note this extract has been sped up and is actually much longer and higher pitched in the song.

Firstly this is clearly an action movie due to all the guns shooting and explosions giving connotations of action and fighting being involved. Characters in this piece is obvious because they are introduced at the end of the opening here, I know that it will follow the characters lives because this piece follows the lives of previous super heroes before them which have died and its as if we have lived all of that and is their time name, engaging us as the audience because we feel apart of it. The atmosphere this piece sets is a quite dark and murderous but the song contradicts what is happening in the video connoting this piece may be comical and also how it is not real because of super heroes and powers. The sound used in this piece is interesting because it contrasts with whats happening within the video because although it sounds up beat but the lyrics used were written about the Vietnam war and connotes how all war is the same, it tries to show us that even superheroes aren't all glamour and that death is still death and all war is the same.

Titles used in this piece are set around the scene so it doesnt lose focus on what is happening but they also have some sort of comical font to it connoting that it is not real and superheroes do not exist but war is always the same. Themes used in this piece are going to be superheroes because of all the super heroes we see in the opening here, possible some war or fighting due to all the connotations of Vietnam and the cold war. The narrative of this piece will be following the lives of superheroes and how it is not all glamorous I know this because of all the death to super heroes because of common things that us as humans experience so there is a part at the beginning here where one of the super heroes are murdered because they are lesbian so it is trying to connote that we are the killers and super powers can never stop us. We know this piece will be set in America because of the American flag on the moon and all the historic events it is showing the America have experienced in the last 60 years, It may be mainly set in New York because of the use of Time square in the extracts.