Film Opening Analysis

Film Opening Analysis

Movie: Allegiant

2. Allegiant

Genre: Action
Allegiant begins with opening credits. The editing is futuristic and very robotlike, as it is pixelated and is paired with eerie music. The music it is paired with makes the opening scene seem as if there is something about to happen. Nonetheless, the movie begins with narration. It is a lady speaking with an authoritative tone of voice as the movie rolls along. The first thing we see after the credits is a building being constructed along with a dirty wall. This wall may easily stand for the things being put in the way and may foreshadow future events that are to occur later on in the movie. The narrating voice has an echo to it and gives the movie a sense of mystery. Anyways, apart from the voice, the camera is moving downward from the building and opens to a long shot view of a field with a a skyline view and a huge group of people moving toward the camera. Behind the people there is a car that begins moving toward the camera and eventually reach the camera before the group of people do, and cut off the people from walking any further. The wall we had previously been shown is actually a gate that is being closed down by those in the car that zoomed in front of the group of people. As predicted, the closing gate cuts the people off and is the first obstacle we see in the film. Once the gate is all we see on the screen, there is a cut to an overhead view of a deteriorating city that seems to be shot with a drone and shows destruction, sadness, and gives an aura of suspense, mystery and misery. The camera moves smoothly along at a high angle to show two characters climbing one of these miserable buildings. With what we have seen so far, it is evident that the movie is taking place in a rather old place with futuristic ideas. It is almost as if the ideology of the future is taking place in a setting of the past. The scenes are presented in linear order and do not jump around, rather show the full view and zoom into details, e.g. like the overhead view of the city and the zooming in of the two characters. these characters are portrayed as bold and brave people as the first impression we have of them is given by the fact that they are climbing an old building. Nonetheless, the scenes move along slowly and so far there is no build up to a climax event, nor any sign of future build up.