Use of cinematography in the opening sequence

The opening sequence I am going to be analysing the cinematography of is Suicide Squad. The films opens presented a slowly expanding-in shot of the producing companies’ logo ‘Warners Bros’ edited using high metallic colours and using a high-pitched beat which excites the audience. It then repeatedly follows with the same shots of the conglomerates integrations. The next shot is a fast moving wide shot flowing across a river and states the exact location of the shot in the bottom right hand corner. The non-diegetic sound has also changed into a slow tempo guitar piece which mellows the mood for the audience.  The bright colours have also been removed from the shot and the piece shows the gloomy and darkness of the scene.

The next shot then is a wide shot of a huge gate with a skull on the front, this contrasts with the happy and relax feel of the music that is being played in the background. It makes the reader think that maybe the location is deserted and the contrast between the non-diegetic sound and the shots is to represents flashbacks. A truck then quickly drives across the gate allowing the audience to view the detail on the gate for only a few seconds, this also demonstrates how the area is abandoned and use to be happy as the truck connotes that the area is uncared-for and just a memory. Once the truck has driven past it then reveals the gate again and zooms into the detail and text written on the rustic gate.

The audience is then shown a wide behind shot of a man sitting at a desk in dim low-key lighting watching all CCTV cameras, the music also then adds an opera voice to the sound which creates a more daunting and horror atmosphere to the scene. The shot is also shown from behind bars and zooms in as if it is going to creep up on the character on the screen. We are then suddenly introduced to a man who is beating a boxing bag, this uses many different angles as it starts off using a behind medium shot of the man but we are then introduced to a close up shot of the characters face. It suddenly switches and shows shots of cops marching through a deserted, imprisoned location which the audience then becomes aware of the fact that the man is in a cell. We are shown a variety of contrasting angles of both of boxer and the police officers. An effective shot is the action-on-action shot of the cop opening the cell hole and then following with a reverse-shot-reverse of the cop and the boxer. This shows the contrasting personalities and emotions of the two characters and we view two close up shots of both of them. The boxer shows a stressed, sweaty and frustrated emotion whereas the cop demonstrates careless and arrogance due to his authority over the prisoner.