The opening sequence of V for Vendetta establishes the dark and chaotic tone of the film over five minutes. In the first minute, black and white logos roll and a voiceover mentions Guy Fawkes night as a man is seen moving a barrel. In the second minute, the man is caught and hung as the audience screams. The third minute shows the man's body after hanging as the title appears. The fourth minute uses parallel editing to show the two protagonists preparing as a man on TV speaks. The fifth minute shows the female protagonist turning off the TV and bumping into a man on the street past curfew, raising questions about the society.

1. Analysis of Film
Opening
V for Vendetta

2. Opening Sequence (01:00)
The opening of this movie begins just like any other.
The first forty seconds purely consists of the
institutional logos rolling onto the screen. They seem
to all be in black and white connoting that the movie,
and its plotline may be quite dark. As the opening
progresses to its forty-third second, a voice over
begins of the female protagonist speaking of the fifth
of November, Guy Fawkes night. This shows that the
movie involves real life historical content and toys
around with it. Eventually, as the first minute of the
opening is about to end, we catch a glimpse of light
and witness someone moving around.

3. Opening Sequence (02:00)
The second minute of the movie begins with a pan from the
bottom upwards of a man moving a barrel. The voiceover
continues from the first minute, making it a sound bridge.
Developing from this, the man is eventually caught and
begins to run away from some guards, and there is a mid-
shot of him as he sees all of them. The camera is shaking
quite a bit throughout this sequence to emphasize the
chaos. As the man is taken by the guards to be hung, there
is a close up shot of his face as they are placing the rope
above his head. There is diegetic sound of the audience
screaming and chanting as this happens. This minute ends
with a few close up shots of a couple of people from the
audience looking distressed and helpless.

4. Opening Sequence (03:00)
The third minute of the movie begins with a slow mid
shot pan of the mans body after he is hung. The non-
diegetic sound of the music is very loud and vicious,
and the volume of the sound increases after he
dropped down from being hung. The scene then
fades as it pans down and leads onto the title of the
movie appearing. The voiceover ends with this, and
the narrative of the story then properly begins. There
is a close up of a different man on TV. The camera
then zooms out of him, and continues to show
parallel editing of the two main protagonists sitting at
a mirror and getting ready.

5. Opening Sequence (04:00)
Continuing on from the third minute, the fourth begins
with the parallel editing. Both protagonists are getting
dressed and preparing themselves as they seem to
be going somewhere. Throughout this whole
sequence the man from the TV is constantly
speaking, another voiceover, however it seems as
though both characters do not agree with what he
has to say. To emphasize his speech, the camera is
constantly flicking to him from one screen onto the
next, also implying that he is being watched by many.

6. Opening Sequence (05:00)
The final minute of the opening of the movie begins
with a medium long shot of the female protagonist as
she turns to speak to the man on the TV from her
room, and then switches it off. There is then a short
establishing shot of what seems to be an alleyway.
There is diegetic sound of a woman speaking and
warning people of the streets as it seems to be that
they have a curfew. As the female turns her corner,
she bumps into a man and there is then a shot-
reverse-shot of her speaking to him as she is trying to
get away. The ending of the opening of this movie
raises many enigma codes, why is there a curfew,
and why is the female protagonist outside past the
curfew?