The document analyzes the openings of three film clips: Taxi Driver, Seven, and Dawn of the Dead. For Taxi Driver, it discusses the use of music, lighting, and editing to portray the main character's split personality and blurred vision of society. For Seven, it describes how the lighting, credits, music, and editing establish the isolated and disturbed tone. For Dawn of the Dead, it summarizes how the collage of chaotic events, fast editing, and soundtrack communicate the loss of social order and worldwide devastation.

1. Analysis Of Clips
A crucial part in the research area is to analyse professional film openings and to assess the
strengths and weaknesses of the clips. Another feature is to examine how they have
incorporated the main conventions within the opening. As an audience we need to feel
engaged and captivated in the opening and thirst for more. Each of the clips introduced and
familiarised us to the surroundings and character but also as an audience we wanted to see
the narrative unfold further.

2. Taxi Driver
The clip commences with the non-diegetic soundtrack which is soft and mellow steadily the tempo of the music
slightly alters to become tense which immediately represents the characters personality. The music plays in sync with
the characters posture and body language, the extreme close up on his eyes show it progress from focused and
fixated to promptly transforming into glazed and distorted vision.
The music and posture correspond alongside each other to signify the characters split personality where one
minute he is calm and collected to then manic and frantic. The scene is located in inner city New York City
where as an audience we spectacle the hectic and eventful life. In the beginning we see a sudden gust of
smoke sweep across the screen which is from the underground sewers, this represents the society is ‘dirty’ and
‘scummy’ and hypothetically it could signify cloudy vision which could possibly be leading up to something.
A point of view shot allows us to look from his perspective on society, he has a blurred vision of what reality is
and what he poses is right and wrong, his view on society is filth and that it is unclean. The lighting promptly
alters from low key lighting to high key, the lights from the on-going traffic reflect on his eyes which give an
opportunity to reveal his eyes. The editing is slow placed which represents the relaxed persona and mood to
rapidly changing to fast pace which signifies the hectic lifestyle and surroundings.

3. Seven
This clip immediately acquaints us with the character
and shows us into the life of the character. The low
key lighting sets the ambience to feel cold and
isolated; the clip predominantly has dark and dusky
colours to set the mood. The credits are overlapped
but when we examine the font of writing it seems
almost manic and the words are displaced
intentionally as the character attempts to play mind
games. Over time the non-diegetic soundtrack
becomes fast paced and rapid to reflect the manic
personality of the character. Editing corresponds with
the soundtrack as there is constant cross cutting to
represent the characters disturbed mind.

4. Dawn Of The Dead
The clip is a collage of events which captions the
mayhem worldwide this is to signify that society
has been lost and the boundaries which keep
everyone in place have been abolished. It
immediately sets the scene and shows that the
equilibrium has been disrupted. It introduces us
to world that has no limitations and the impact
of the devastation. The editing is fast paced
which constantly displays numerous events that
are occurring. The non- diegetic soundtrack has
significant meaning as it emphasises the end of
the world (apocalypse) which seems evident in
the opening scene, even though the song seems
upbeat, we have to look past that and find the
hidden meaning within.