The document provides a detailed shot-by-shot analysis of the opening scene from the film Mad Max: Fury Road. It examines the different camera shots used, including extreme long shots, tilts, medium close ups, close ups, and action close ups. It describes how each shot is used to set the scene in the desert, establish Max as the main character, show him eating a lizard, begin an action sequence as vehicles chase him, and get out of his wrecked vehicle. The analysis concludes by noting the repetitive pattern of shots and evaluating resources used to understand cinematic techniques.

1. Micro/Macro features
By Jakub G.

2. I will be evaluating the
film opening from: Mad
Max: Fury Road (2015)

3. Extreme Long Shot

4. Extreme Long shot
In this opening scene we see a character (Max) at a
long shot, as well as his car. This shot shows that
the character is facing away from camera looking at
a distant desert. There is nobody else in the shot
which suggests that this character is the main
character. The colours are bright which suggests
that the movie is not a horror. The director wanted to
present the Mise En Scene by taking an extreme
long shot and present the desert. It also shows the
characters back-side of the costume.

5. Tilt

6. Tilt
As we can see this is the same scene, but the
camera has tilted to reveal a lizard on a rock, this
indicates that people in this movie live out in the
open- the lizard soon proceeds to walk toward Max,
and then gets captured by Max, soon he kicks the
lizard in the air, and catches it into his mouth, then
bites into it-now the camera has zoomed to show the
death of the lizard.

7. Medium Close Up

8. Medium Close Up
In this medium close up we can see that the
character has the 2-headed lizard (as seen is the
previous scene) in his mouth, and appears to be
consuming it. This emphasises the fact that there is
nothing else to eat, that he is very hungry and it
reveals that the character is in such a bad state, that
he eats it without even cooking it.

9. Close up

10. Close Up
This camera close up differs from the last, it is used
in a slow zoom into the characters face, changing
the shot from a medium close up, into a normal
close up. The slow zoom transition slowly builds up
suspense, and foreshadows that something will go
wrong. As well as shows the characters facial
features and costume (Mise en Scene)

11. Action close up

12. Action close up
This quick close up of he characters foot kicking
over some tools shows that something is about to
happen, we have no diegetic sound of any other
action, however from the characters performance,
and sudden movements from a standstill, it is clear
that the action has begun.

13. Performance

14. Performance
The camera angle changes to where it begun, but
this time it shows the character driving away into the
distant desert, and now we begin to hear some
diegetic sound of multiple vechicles and wild
screams getting closer and closer to where the
character has just been standing, and soon the
vechicles actually appear to be chasing the main
character. Also as soon as the other vechicles
appear on-screen, the camera actually pans higher
to reveal the other side of the small peak that the
first character was standing on, to show the multiple
vechicles in a police-like chase.

15. Extreme long shot

16. Extreme long shot
This is an extreme long shot of the action-filled
chase, it features all of the vechicles sprinting after
eachother, and even the sounds of the roaring
engines are significantly quieter and more muffled to
emphasise on the actual distance of the shot.

17. Long Shot

18. Long Shot
This long shot features a few of the vechicles, but in
the centre is the main characters vechicle which is
currently being tipped over by the cars on either
side. This shot presents a lot of action, and straight
away builds tension as the main character is in
danger.

19. Medium Close up

20. Medium Close up
This close up shows the main character getting out
of the wrecked car, some people would say that this
is a bad shot as it releases tension, yet we now
know that the main character is being targeted by
some sort of scavengers/criminals, and we know
that he has no way out of this situation, therefore
this builds up even more tension.

21. Conclusion
I have included every shot of the first 3 minutes of
the opening scenes from the movie: Mad Max: Fury
Road
I have decided not to use more time from the
opening scenes as they were generally very
repetitive, and used almost in a pattern: Long shot,
close up, extreme long shot. And over again.

22. Evaluation
As I worked through looking at the different
micro/macro elements in the opening scenes I went
along and checked/eliminated the criterias set by my
teacher.
Some of the terms that I did not fully understand I
looked up on the internet, as i did not find the
powerpoint given to me by my teacher as very in-
depth, this is because I wanted to know a little more
about some of the elements in order to have slightly
more experience. I have found this site very usefull:
http://filmsound.org/ and I would recommend others
to use it to find out key things about sound and
different elements in film making.