Skyfall Opening

The Opening scene to Skyfall starts with non diegetic music that sounds slightly sinister, which starts straight away. The denotations are of a male black silhouette, gun in hand, in a dark corridor, all of these connote that due to the fact the man has a gun it could mean that we may be about to see some action which gives a sense of danger, the camera shot used for the opening scene is a long shot showing a figure at the end of a long corridor. As the figure starts to walk closer to the camera the music starts to build up the closer he gets creating tension as if something is about to happen. It is unclear on what gender the figure is, however as they walk closer to the camera you can start to tell that it is a man, as you get a close up shot, the music suddenly bursts out with a loud sound of a sharp knife being pulled out of its sheath. As this happens the man eyes are shown through a beam of light which shows the face of he mysterious figure who happens to be 'James Bond'  which straight away would attract the audience as he is a well known actor. When the noise of the sharp knifes occurs he hears something and pulls out his gun, which gives a sense of danger as he is using it as a defence.

We then get shown an over the shoulder shot of what is to believe the main character, this enables the audience to see the end of the corridor and what he is walking towards. The music is still sinister and keeping that sense of tension the closer he reaches the door at the end. The door look to be open, either someone is there or someone has tried to get in, this makes the audience unaware as to what is behind the door and in that room which entices them into the film even more. When he looks around the room to find a dead body lying in blood the music starts to get faster and more interesting as if some kind of action is about to take place, as the camera turns around you get a close up of another body lying face down on the floor of a bathroom, this suggests that there is a murderer and that the man was expecting this as he had his gun at the ready.

we then hear dialogue, which sounds technical as if the man is on some sort of mission to get a 'hard dive' as he states when talking through a head piece to a women who he seem to be reporting back, so that suggests that he may be working for her. In the background there is a big open window with light beaming down on  man slouched over an arm chair suggesting he is in pain and has also been shot. The women then tells the man through the heard piece that he needs to "go after him" however he ignores that instruction as he tried to save a man who we believe to also be working with them as he called him' Ronson' so he knows his name, she tells him to leave him as they don't have time which means that the 'hard drive' they are after must be very important as they had to leave one of their own people to die. A low angle and two shot camera angle are used which shows you both of the characters and then the effect of the low angle shot makes them both look venerable to what might be in the other room. The room he walks into is pitch black, and the non- diegetic music becomes sinister again and gives out a sense of danger, the ma is also pointing his gun out toward the end of the room in case anything is going to happen.

The non-diegetic music gets louder the closer he is to leaving the room and starts to get creepier an high pitched, however as he reaches he end the music starts to gain a beat and becomes faster and interesting as he then enters the street ahead of him. As he is now outside you can finally see what he is wearing, which is a suit, the suit is still clean and tidy as if nothing has just happened and his hands are clean even though he was just pressing a rag against the other mans chest were he was bleeding. A car then speeds around the corner, barely stopping as the man then jumps in and as he shuts the door the car pulls away quickly with both characters saying nothing to each other, which suggests that the man was expecting the woman to come.