The quiet music builds loader through the opening titles that creates a tension that is kept through the fists scene in the opening.
The opening credits fade trough a plain black screen.
The music then turns into the digetic sound of the train and peoples voices.
The camera is in a fixed mid shot while the train continues to move and then finally comes to a stop and the main character steps out and is dressed as a navy officer.
Then there is a tracing camera on him as he enters the station.
You here people saying 'Merry Christmas' and meeting up with there families. You wonder where his family is as being in the navy probably doesn't get much time to see his family so they should be greeting him at the station.
A camera circles the man as he looks around the station which then switches to a point of view shot continuing the circling until it stops on two police men.
By it stopping on the police we initially think he has done something bad, but then you see a close up on the mans face and realise he is looking at them in a concerned manor.
It then cuts to an aerial shot to confirm he is walking towards the police men. The police men and main characters stand out from the crowd because everyone else is moving quickly and looking busy whilst they go against the flow of traffic.
It then cuts to the next scene and a tracing camera follows the man through the hospital.
The next camera angle switch between point of view shots from the man and his wife lying in the hospital bed.
However, the point of view shot from his wife is slightly blurred which gives us a sense of her damaged physical state and the light grows stronger and more blurred until the whole screen fades to white.
The next scene fades through the white to a flashback, while accompanied by a woman signing a nursery rhyme in an enhanced echo style which fades out to her normal singing voice. This adds to the illusion that this scene is a flashback.
You know that the flash back didn't happen that long ago because you see a sign saying 'railway station 2 miles' and it was raining like it was when her husband was being taken to the hospital by the police.
The camera changes between close ups of the womans face and mid shots of the baby as it gets out of its car seat.
Then followed by a point of view shot from her as she crashes the car.
Finally a mid shot as the baby flies through the front window.
No Country for Old Men-
Starts with numerous stills of wide, open Texas landscapes during sunset. The landscape is very dark against the golden sunset almost like a silouet. Whilst these images are being shown a mans voice is being played, no musical background is acompaning it. This is a powerfull start and establishes the movie to be a dark, brooding, slowpaced thriller.
It then cuts to a panning camera following a man getting arrested and being put into the back of a police car.
There is a close up on the gas canister as it gets put into the police car, this makes you think its important but you don’t know why.
A low angle camera changes to an aerial shot as we see the car drive down the long open road.
When we see the murderer strangling the police guard to death in the station the camera switches between a high angle shot directly above the struggle and a close up on the murderers face.
Then we see a point of view shot from the front of the stolen police car as it follows another car down the road, this shot makes it seem like he is hunting this man down.
Then the murderer calmly kills the man from the car, no emotion on his face, he kills him with no hesitation. He is a man that is used to killing people; moreover, his killing method is very effective and clever as it doesn’t leave any evidence in the body like a bullet.
Then the movie switches to the next character with a close up on his face.
He says ‘you hold still’ which is a link back to the last scene when the killer said the same thing to the man from the car before he killed him.
Lots of long shots are used in this scene which shows the wide open spaces of the country side a character would usually look vulnerable but the clothes he wears, his attitude and knowledge of the area make the character seem at home and powerful in this environment.
Zoomed in, point of view shots are used when the character looks through the rifle scope or binoculars.
We see a point of view panning shots as he follows the animal tracks and blood.
When he walks between the cars and the dead people it is a very low tracking shot following his feet so we can see the dead bodies on the floor from their level.
The Mummy-
Haunting, violin music is played at the star of the movie as the first shot fades through black.
The first shot is an aerial shot that is zooming out from the sun and pans across an ancient Egyptian landscape and then into a close up of a mans face.
A tracking shot follows a woman through the hall ways of a grand house.
No Natural light is in these shots, it is all candle lighting and added to the golden aura in the scene. I believe this is done to add to the effect that this opening sequence is set before the rest of the movie.
A voice over is explaining the characters and storyline while through out this scene. Whereas the characters themselves talk in Egyptian so subtitles are used.
A two shot of the man and woman is used, then, close up shots switch between the man and woman as they exchange dialogue.
When they stab the King close ups are used on their faces to show there emotion.
The camera zooms in on the door and it is broken open and the guards enter.
As the man escapes he looks back and a shot of her silhouette shows her kill herself.
Followed by a shot showing him escaping in chariots but a close up of his face its still semi visible in the centre of the screen. This shows he is very emotional about her death and it is all he can think about.
Aerial camera then shows the man performing a ceremony to try to bring his wife back from the dead, this shot is used to show you the ritual circle he is a part of.
A sweeping camera follows the rail of the woman's ghost as it moves up and flows into her body.
Point of view camera looks down onto the woman.
But then the ritual is stopped by the guards and the woman doesn't get resurrected.
The next few camera shot are point of view shots from the guards mummifying him and sealing him in his coffin.
The camera then pulls out of his grave and pans upwards then zooms in on head of the statue. The title of the movie then fades in. Camera then rotates 90 degrees around the statue as it ages rapidly and brings the time upto the present day the movie is set it.
Another indicator that time has changed is that the lighting is all natural now.
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