The document discusses various film techniques used in the opening scene of X-Men where young Magneto is separated from his parents in a concentration camp. It notes that the editing starts slow but speeds up as the drama intensifies, matching Magneto's growing anger. The child actor effectively conveys Magneto's distress as his parents are taken away. There is diegetic sound from prisoners and soldiers throughout. Non-diegetic music builds along with the drama and fades out as Magneto is knocked down. The mise-en-scene establishes it is WWII through the costumes, setting and use of German and Polish languages.

2. EXTREME CLOSE UP

3. CLOSE UP

4. MEDIUM SHOT

5. LONG SHOT

6. TRACKING SHOT

7. PAN

8. TILT

9. ZOOM

10. CUT SHOT

11. PACE
At first in the sequence the editing is slow, but as the story thickens, the
setting becomes clear, the situation is known and the drama intensifies the
editing becomes quicker. It’s almost as if the editing matches the anger of
young magneto.

12. PERFORMANCE
The child playing young magneto shows that he’s in great
distress when his parents are taken away from him and he’s
being pulled away by the soldiers.

13. DIEGETIC
Throughout the scene you can hear the Jewish prisoners all talking and
soldiers shouting to each other in German as well as other prisoners
working. There is diegetic sound also edited in by the looks of it as you
can hear some of the things in great detail than if you were to record it
with the original shot.

14. NON-DIEGETIC
The non-diegetic sound does not start straight away. It starts about 43
seconds into the opening sequence and as the drama builds so does
the volume and the intensity of the music while fading away near the
end when he is knocked to the floor and the scene tilts up towards the
sky fading out into normal diegetic sound.

15. MISE EN SCENE
The scene suggests that this is the character ‘Magneto’ at a young age as a Jew in the concentration camps, by the
fact that he’s bending the gate back on itself with his powers. We know this because the actors are either wearing
simple clothes or army uniforms. The people in simple clothes also have the yellow star to mark them as a Jew,
which was used in WW2. The army men have guns and helmets and are very violent in their way of working. The
scene is very dark as it is raining and has black gates, puddles and mud all over the place with grey, depressing
buildings. They’re all speaking either Polish or German. The young magneto is screaming as he is dragged away
from his parents and being pulled back by the troops.