Opening to a thriller - The Dark Knight - Max

Research done outside of lesson - The Dark Knight - Rated 12.

The Target audience is for people who enjoy superhero films, but with many of the scenes including adult themes such as violence, blood etc.  We can determine that this film is meant for young adults.

Camera:
- Starts with a CGI shot of blue smoke, as if it was emerging from an explosion, fills the screen.  The image of batman's insignia blocks the smoke and zooms in to complete darkness.
- An immediate cut to an airborne establishing shot through Gotham City.
- The camera cuts to a couple of bank robbers looking out the window of a tall building, shot from behind.
- We cut to a lone bank robber shot from behind, standing on a street corner, slowly a tilt and zoom makes us focus on the mask he's holding.  A car pulls up and the bank robber enters the car.
- We cut back to the robbers up in the high building, shot from behind, they zip wire to the opposite building.  A high angle panning shot from in between the building and the bank, a shot shows them zip wiring down.  They land on the roof of the building, shot from a low angle.
- Cut to the other robbers in the car, shot from the back seat, then cuts to a side shot in a car of the robber in the passenger seat.
- Cut to the robbers on the roof of the bank, a handheld medium shot moves to use quick focuses on one robber to the fuse box.
- Low angle pan shot of the robbers leaving the car and entering the bank.

Mise en Scene
- Characters - The three car bank robbers and the two roof bank robbers.
The handheld camera movements show the moods of the characters, showing that they are in a rush, but the handheld is somehow stable so we don't miss anything important. The characters don't hesitate in doing their jobs, they don't get distracted, this shows they have been planning this for a long time and know what their roles are in the job they are doing.

Costume - The robbers all wear masks to hide their faces, the masks have been painted on quickly to show the jokers key signature, a clown face.  Gloves to conceal fingerprints.  They all wear easy to walk in, dark, maneuverable clothing so that their clothes won't get in the way by being too tight etc.

 Props -
Guns (pistols and semi automatics), Grapple gun, Zip Wire, Masks, Bag, Car

Editing -
Cross Cutting
Parallel Editing

Sound -
Orchestral soundtrack (Drums etc)
Diegetic sounds - Window smashing, Grapple gun firing, zip wire, loading guns. (All On Screen)
Non Diegetic sounds - A swooping sound is present when the two robbers zip wire to the other building, I doubt that would be there.

Establishing zoom in shot:

  Slow zoom in shot: