The Departed Opening Sequence

I am going to analyse another film, the one that I am going to be looking at is The Departed
The link to the video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pci7RS51OfU

01- 09 seconds.

In the first few second you can see that the clip is based in a very overcrowded area, the clip shows a number of people fighting in a street the camera that its being filmed on creates the effect that its been filmed by someone in the street watching with a phone camera or something similar, The people that are fighting are all wearing dark colour clothes, they have dark jackets on and they all look around the same age. As you can see 2 people are fighting and its turns into more and more this would suggest that its a strong community, the people that are fighting may have been in a gang the reason I think this is because its in a build up area and the way the lighting is and the tall building suggests that its not a very nice area.

  
10- 15 seconds

The camera pans to 2 police men standing in the street and watching what is happening, they do not apper to be bothered about what is happening and they are standing watching, they are wearing a shit that is blue which has connotations of, pureness, happiness, love. The fact that they are wearing the shirts and are police would also suggest that they are working class.

15- 18 seconds

Here the camera again moves to the action where the fighting occured, you now see that there are much more people and the fighting is turning into a riot, everyone is wearing relativity the same clothes and look to be lower class as the live in a built up area, and they are out fighting.

18-19 seconds

The camera moves to a black barrel that has white writing on that says NO this could suggest that they wish this was not happening or it could mean that no your not doing something but they have not listened to the NO and because of this the fighting has started.

20- 25 seconds

Here you can see a number of buses the camera is zoomed in at this point at a black character in a bus, the window has been smashed we can see this from the camera when it starts to zoom out, this is will be from the fighting that has broke out but it could suggest that they want to get to the people in the bus, because of the ethnicity of the characters, as the are black they may think that they should be fighting, black people are represented as evil, nasty, and could also be strong.

25- 32 seconds

Throughout this time you can see that the camera is a close up/ mid shot of all the people that are in the street as the camera is right in the action you can not make out all of the people however it moves to the left and you can see a line of police standing in single file, it looks like they are keeping the fighters from getting to an area.

33- 40 seconds

Here the camera moves out and goes to a birds eye view of the city and zooms into an area that is over sea, whilst the camera is looking over the city, it again has lots of building that are very close to each other and it looks like a area where not many people work as its built up.

41 seconds- 1min 2 seconds

This is a large gap of time and throughout this all you see is a man that is blacked out and you can only see his posture, the man is walking whilst the camera is following him, the man then stops and blows some smoke this suggests that he smokes, the man may be blacked out as it may be highlighting that this is the person that started the fighting of or that he may be a target.

from 1min 3 seconds to 3 mins 8 seconds

In this time you can see that the camera is in a cafe this looks to be an everyday situation with children sitting in there with friends eating, a man come into the cafe and the owner goes over to him and gives him some money this could be money that is owed for him doing a favour etc, they are talking for a long period of time with one of the children looking over interested in what they are talking about further on in this clip you can see that they kid gets some shopping and the man gives him some money this may be his dad or someone the he knows, they kid then walks out of the door and then the clip ends..

There are no titles that run through this scene, unsure if its the correct one, however it is good to look at as it again will give us as a group an understanding into more films to see how they work and how the camera is used effectively to make it look like someone with a camera etc is filming it.