A1. Included in the opening sequence of Caspian are forms and conventions from the spy/action genre, these are the inclusion of the hidden package and the fact he arms himself on his visit to the pick-up location.
Caspian also starts by following the main charcateter/protagonist, this is dennnoted by the close up shots, over shoulder shots and fact that the camera never strays far from the character after he is introduced with his arrival in the car scene. This convention is brought directly over from another spy/action genre film, The Bourne Ultimatum. To show this I have included some shot for shot screenshots taken from both films. Other conventions I have used are a text shot, telling the viewer the location, and also the fact that it is all dark, deserted and gloomy. However I have differed from the Bourne film by having the town deserted instead of busy, with diegetic bell toll introducing an edgy feel to the mood of the sequence instead of the busy commuter traffic of The Bourne Ultimatum. Also I set Caspian’s opening in a realistic countryside town environment and not a modern city. I have included some stills of the deserted town to illustrate this “spooky” mood.
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