Casino Royale – Up to 3 minutes 40 seconds

This film starts off in black and white, this is to create a dark and mysterious atmosphere but also it lets the audience concentrate on what is happening with no distractions like bright lights and it gives the audience a sense of thrill and excitement because it’s a quiet, dark cold night and gives the audience a real sense that there is something dirty going on and that this is a spy film. The camera starts of at a low angle view and gives the audience a medium long shot of a car rolling up to a big building late at night when no one else is around.
It then switches to a low angle close up shot of a man who gets out the car and we can see from his expressions that he is up to something and suspects something is going to happen, the audience can see this from his eye movement and that he is very cautious. The next thing we see him doing is going up an elevator, again a low angle shot is used here, this creates a sense that the man who they are following is quite important and that he should be right to be cautious because this shot almost creates a point of view from another person and that maybe people are following him, this creates tension.

While he is in the elevator we get another close up of this man and again the audience can track his eyes, the camera then switches to a point of view shot off this man and again the audience get this sense that he suspects something because he’s looking at which floor he is at. The audience can now see the man walking at a fast pace with a camera tracking his movement and following him in the same direction he is going.
He then walks into his room and turns on a light instantly noticing there is something wrong in the room, his safe has been opened and we get a close up of his eyes and the audience can see the panic in his face and this creates tension because there is something about to happen. The camera used here switches from a close up of the door and tracking his movement to an over the shoulder view of a figure in a corner. The audience then hears a voice and the man’s turns around in and quick turn, showing his tension and fear.

A new character is now introduced to us. The man suddenly relaxes as James Bond is introduced. There is then a conversation between both men, Bond knows he’s done wrong and some does the man, the man goes to sit down and pull open a draw with a gun inside. The conversation includes lots of close ups of both men and allows the audience to see the reactions and thoughts going through their minds, this is done by looking at their eye movement and how relaxed they are. The conversation goes on to lead to the man knows he’s in trouble but feels safe with Bond because he is in a high place and knows Bond isn’t a Double O yet. The conversation then leads to the man pulling out his gun on Bond and is ready to fire, this creates tension because Bond is just sitting down and doesn’t have time to react, but when the man comes to pull the trigger he soon finds out Bond has taken his ammo for the gun. The man now knows that Bond has found someone close to him and knows a lot about him and then goes to a flashback

Throughout this scene of the man walking from his car to his office while talking to Bond there is a mysterious sounding non-diagetic music going on which creates a sense of tension and danger because it gets louder and more creepy the closer he gets to his office and then when he sees Bond dies down. Then comes up again when he prepares to shoot Bond, all of this creates tension for the audience.

Bond is fighting the contact who worked with man. And a fight scene goes under way, it’s a brutal fight scene with a new type of non-diagetic music going, its trumpets and violins create a tense making scene with the trumpets creating that sense of action and fist fighting while the violins create that sense of danger and death. And so the fight goes under way and we see Bond drown and choke the man to death, or so the audience is lead to believe.
We go back to the office for the next scene where the man knows Bond has been sent to gain his Double O status, and starts to explain to him that “the second is..”, but can’t finish his sentence because Bond shoots him. We then go back to the flashback and see the contact get back up and the audience fear the worst for Bond because he’s not looking at him. But Bond turns around and shoots the contact before the contact can shoot him.

This creates a good opening full of the right amount of action and thrills with an excellent sound score.