Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Opening scene analysis - Gaurdians of the Galaxy 2014

How does Marvel make the opening scene to Guardians of the Galaxy emotional?

Marvel uses textual features such as Mise-en-scene, Sound, Camera work and Editing to make the opening scene to Guardians of the Galaxy emotional.

Firstly, Mise-en-scene and camera work help to make the audience feel lots of sympathy and upset for the small boy who is the main character and focus in this sequence. There is a Mid-shot of the boy and his grandfather. The top part of the grandfather is cut out of the shot. This shows that the young boy is very small compared to everything in the shot. This infers that the boy is vulnerable.  This will make the audience feel sympathy for the boy as they will see a small vulnerable child. As well as this, his facial expression is sad and slacked. This suggests something bad has happened or is about to happen. Also, he is clinging to his bag very tightly. And in every shot proxemics are used to show him as small. This emphasizes that he is small and vulnerable and that something bad is going to happen. This creates enigma as the audience will wonder what has happened? or what is about to happen? that has made this child so sad and vulnerable. Then, after this there is a zoom out of the child screaming. It zooms so far out the child looks small and hopeless. This suggests the bad thing has happened and the child is hopeless against it. This creates sympathy for the boy as he is young and the audience will question what the child's future will be like because of how this event has effected it.

Secondly, Mise-en-scene, sound, camera work and editing work together to help represent the mum as powerless but ready to go away to a better place. Firstly, she is never in the shot for very long. Even though, she is clearly the focus of everyone in this scene she is not focused on for very long. This suggests that she doesn't have very long left. Mise-en-scene is also used to portray this as she is wearing white and is very pale. This suggests she is sick and vulnerable. Powerless to her disease. Also, when she is in the shot there is always an acute high angle. This supports the representation that she is powerless. However, Mise-en-scene and sound are also used to show she is ready to go. Her facial expression does not show fear but love and her voice is gentle and soft. This shows she isnt scared of death and is prepared to leave the world they are currently in. She is also in a light pink blanket. This adds some colour into the scene and shows she is vulnerable but happy. As well as this she is smiling which means she is happy in some sort of way. 

Finally, camera work, Mise- en-scene and sound are used to help represent the boy as having some sort of power to do something for his mum. When they bring the boy over to his mother he does not turn and face her. This shows he is upset but the slight low angle in the shot shows there is something he can do for him mum. His mother then says "Take my hand Peter". This suggests that he can do something for his mum or at least do as she asks so she has a peaceful death. however, this is not supported at the end when the young boy is flung out the room and told to stay where he is. 

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