The opening sequence of the film, is set in Boston in 1970’s time area (New York City) where violence and fighting are out of control on the streets. This is good opening to a thriller film especially for a sub-genre crime/thriller, which fits The Departed very nicely. The music is The Rolling Stones – “Gimme Shelter”
2. Sound – the sound thought the beginning of the film uses non – diegetic sounds, to a feel for the movie and it adds to the theme of movie also. Then a slow voice over comes in with Jack Nicholson’s character with a diegetic sound of the background of the fighting and the police vans, then a music track begins with the voice over is going. There a line that’s predominately repeating within the opening of the film “war it’s just a shot away” this signifies that the movie is going to be violent involving fighting and weapons. Also theirs is a sound bridge thought out the opening of the movie; it’s the music track in the background plays between the scenes.
Camera Techniques – the beginning shows the audience an racial tensions in Boston within the 1970’s, a medium shot use to show the fighting, then a pan shot is uses to a group of Americas with signs. There several quick cuts from the action back to fighting on the streets within the background the audience can see a man carrying the America flag, which symbolises that America in 1970’s is very violence and out of control also it shows a American wants to have human rights like rest of the people. A close-up is uses on the word “NO” painted on a bin. A establishing shot of Boston shortly after the footage of the beginning then cuts a zoom in shot of a street, the audience sees a mystery character (at this time) with black sunglasses an panning shot is uses whist he’s walking back and forwards in the shop as the camera is doing that, it’s keeping a nice medium close-up of him. Through the opening of the movie, the mystery character is also in a darker lighting to the other characters to create an enigma code for this character and to introduce him a negative light as the young version of Matt Damon’s character is in a light background and later we see the mystery character breaking into the light, using a low angle shot it shows that he’s trying to make the young character a bad guy then cuts to the tiles.
Mise en Scene – the characters thought out the beginning of the movie is wearing 1970’s clothes baggy bottoms, pole shirts and a stranded suit for the mystery character. The setting is New York Boston 1970 is a common choice for crime/thriller films because of the events that took placed there, this also a version of the of the 1970’s at its worst time.
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