MICRO E

LEMENTS

IN F

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OPENIN

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RY A

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EXTREME CLOSE UP

CLOSE UP

MEDIUM SHOT

LONG SHOT

TRACKING SHOT

PAN

TILT

ZOOM

CUT SHOT

PACE

At first in the sequence the editing is slow, but as the story thickens, the setting becomes clear, the situation is known and the drama intensifies the editing becomes quicker. It’s almost as if the editing matches the anger of young magneto.

PERFORMANCE

The child playing young magneto shows that he’s in great distress when his parents are taken away from

him and he’s being pulled away by the soldiers.

DIEGETIC

Throughout the scene you can hear the Jewish prisoners all talking and soldiers shouting to each other in German as well as other prisoners working. There is diegetic sound also edited in by the looks of it as you can hear some of the things in great detail than if you were to record it with the original shot.

NON-DIEGETIC

The non-diegetic sound does not start straight away. It starts about 43 seconds into the opening sequence and as the drama builds so does the volume and the intensity of the music while fading away near the end when he is knocked to the floor and the scene tilts up towards the sky fading out into normal diegetic sound.

MISE EN SCENE

The scene suggests that this is the character ‘Magneto’ at a young age as a Jew in the concentration camps, by the fact that he’s bending the gate back on itself with his powers. We know this because the actors are either wearing simple clothes or army uniforms. The people in simple clothes also have the yellow star to mark them as a Jew, which was used in WW2. The army men have guns and helmets and are very violent in their way of working. The scene is very dark as it is raining and has black gates, puddles and mud all over the place with grey, depressing buildings. They’re all speaking either Polish or German. The young magneto is screaming as he is dragged away from his parents and being pulled back by the troops.