TRANSITIONS + LENGTH OF TAKES

The start when the ship are flying towards the other plant it looks as if the are traveling in slow motion this efficacies that this is the first time they have traveled this far out into space. It shows how ignorant the human rase is and links into the story line. Another example is that when it changes from the back story to the class room the transition is when it takes a pitcher and then it zooms out a little bit and then the pitcher becomes on a screen. This effect allows you to understand where the narrator is. It also reinforces the fact that this is in the future.

SHOT SIZE/ANGLE+CAMERA MOVEMENT

In part of beginning scene the camera is on the teacher which you find out soon after that it’s the main character dream and that she fears the teacher this is reinforced with the fact that the camera is tilted up witch makes the teacher seem bigger and more threatening. In the part when the ships are travailing to a different galaxy the shot is long shot. This shows you that they are really in a different galaxy, this reinforces the fact that it is a sci-fi move.

SCRIPT/DIALOGUE

In the start of the film the dialogue is spoken as if the way we speak is changed over the years "we were so many" it like the way we have changed from our ancestors in the way we speak they have changed from the way we speak. It reinforces the idea that this move is seat in the future. Another example of dialogue in the start of this movie is when you get introduced to the idea that there government is not as good as it seems “where not trying to show people what to think, where just trying to show them how" this is the bases for the mane idea of the move.

SPECIAL EFFECTS



In the very beginning the universal studios logo slowly tints gray after the words are gone this shows the pasting of time as the plant gets older and more piloted. This special effect is animation. As the ships leave the plant and go out into space, is another example of animation because the ship have been created on a computer it allows you to connect what the narrator is saying and the size and stile of the ships this also relates to the TV series FireFly.

GENRE / ATMOPHERE

The tone of this opening sequence to this movie is that it’s going to be a sci-fi movie through the way that the narrator describes it to be in our future. The first part of this scene was made using special effects this is easy to tell because the opening shot is of our plant from space which is no longer green but gray and as the narrator is talking there is a fleet of spaceships leave our plant then you get pitcher of other plants that have gen made using special effects as well. The second part of the opening scene is filmed with unharnessed colure making every thing look brighter then usual. The mode in the opening scene is airy from the way the narrator speaks in a clam, controlled way, it makes it seem like there is something to hide. This foreshadows the plot of the story.