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The Avengers opening scene analysis 

The opening scene immediately  starts off with a  panning of the camera as it is showing you the setting. The camera rises until you can see the characters and the sound you can hear is diegetic sound as it is sounds of the trains however, the noise disappears as soon as the characters are shown. You can tell that is in an abandoned building and no one is going to be around besides these characters that you are shown next. You are shown a long shot of them; this shot is effective as you have the low key lighting where the men are all standing around this girl who is tied to the chair. The light is directly on her coming from above, representing that she is going to be an important character in this film.

Suddenly the next shot goes straight into action as you get a close up of one of the male characters punching her. You hear the diegetic sound of the punch helping the audience to feel her pain. You then get a little bit of a low angle shot as she breathes heavily trying to relieve the pain. This low angle shot can connote that she has little power right now. You then get medium shots of them having a conversation, they bare talking in a different language that is quite powerful. The female is wearing a black dress and has her hair and make up done looking quite formal.  One of the males grab her and tilt her chair back, you are shown a shot of her feet off the ground and then a high angle shot of her lent back on the chair. From this you can infer they are trying to get something out of her and making her frightened by threatening her life. You can see in her facial expression that she is scared but not completely terrified. 

The next camera shot is from a different view. You are shown the characters through a mirror that is in this abandoned building. You see the back of her and then you see the front of the men. You get a close up of what the audience may think is the boss of all of this as he has the other men doing the work and he isn't showing bravery or courage, he just gets everyone else to do his dirty work for him.  After a bit of a discourse you get a high angle shot of one of the men grabbing the girls face. The boss of this walks over to a 
wooden table. You get a long shot of all the characters but closest to the camera is this table full with hammers, knifes and torture weapons. The key lightning in this shot is a bit brighter as you have the chandelier allowing you to see around the basement. Enigmas are introduced. Are they going to torture her? What has she done wrong? Who even are these people? This gets the audience wanting more. He grabs a plyer building tension as you don't know what you are about to be shown you get the diegetic sound of them squeaking. There is not much non diegetic sound as this is all quite subtle and the diegetic sound makes up for it. 

All of a sudden as you think something extremely terrible is about to happen the phone rings adding more diegetic sound, one of the other men answer it. The phone call is extreme and the guy on the phone call demands the 'boss' to put the woman on the phone otherwise the building that was meant to be unknown will blow up. From this you can connote that whatever she is doing, she isn't in danger and is one step ahead. The audience start to feel confused and as you can see from the mans facial expressions he helps create this mood as he does not know what is going on. His actions become slower as he put the phone by the girls ear quite aggressively. The guy on the phone tells her to come into work and from this you can tell that she doesn't take what is happening seriously relieving the tension that she is going to get killed but making the audience curious to what is going on. The audience now start to understand that this is all a job for her. She hears some news you can tell she dislikes and to make this clearer to understand non diegetic sound is added and the camera zooms closer on her face as she says 'let me put you on hold'. The music reaches the climax of the tension and as the 'boss' takes the phone of her she kicks him in the groin. The non diegetic sound starts to become up paced and the movements are speeding up as she attacks all of these men. You hear the diegetic sounds of the punches, the chair hitting them and the men moaning in agony. The audience gt s surprise ass this girl is so superior. Her skills are showed of in this fighting scene wowing the audience. 

You get s direct shot of her grabbing her heels and walking away connoting that this was all a breeze for her. She picks up the phone and starts to have a conversation  with the guy she put on hold. As he says 'you get the big guy' A non diegetic sound is added as the beat drops and you get a closeup of her face which is the look of shock. From this you connote that this isn't good news and a lot of action and drama is awaiting with the next task.