Opening Scene Analysis - The Transporter

Opening Scene Analysis

I have chosen to analyse the film Transporter as this opening sequence has many great varieties of techniques that are being used throughout it. The film itself is full of action as it contains fighting, driving and many action scenes.

The opening scene is made to make the audience feel as if they don’t really know what is happening, it gives the opening sequence a sense of mystery as the audience can not quite tell what is going on as all they can see is one character and a car and yet do we discover anything about him till later on into the opening sequence. This relates to our group work as we only have one character at the beginning of out sequence which give the same indication to our audience as they are trying to figure who this character is and why is he running.

The camera is always tracking the character as this also gives an indication to the audience that this character may play a great role in this film as the tracking of his face and body indicates to the audience that he has an intimidating role in the film. This is equivalent to our piece as the audience do not see another character until later on in our sequence when the other character is introduced we tried to get an idea of this sequence by me viewing this footage to my group which is why we used the idea of tracking the character as the mystery of this sequence makes the audience feel as if they are going straight into the film rather than letting them think about the sequence you pack the opening sequence up with many shots so that the adrenaline of our audience will be raised.

The introduction of a new character comes as a shock as the audience who are watching the Transformer feel as if the begging sequence will only be about this one characters but then the introduction of the new character comes as a great shock as the audience never expected this outcome as the shot happened in a space of five seconds which at this stage gave the audience the mixed indications of what’s happening. In relation to ours we decided to introduce another character later on the sequence, as we wanted the same effect to happen when the audience were viewing ours.

The mystery of out opening sequence is planned by watching the transformer s opening sequence as we decided that we wanted to have an action packed opening sequence as this would draw the attention of our audience immediately and we felt that by inserting different shots that we would be able to achieve this.

By Faisal Khan