Written analysis on the Opening sequece of three films

In class we watched three opening sequences of a film and we identified what the antagonist, protagonist, equilibrium,disequilibrium,enigma codes and the action codes; how they were presented in the three films.


Enigma codes; This controls what people know, holds others interests and it creates a mystery during the narrative.
Action codes; The events in the story, develops the narrative; for example guns being shown to portray violence.


Children of men;
Protagonst; the guy who had the coffee, the camera was folding it
Antagnist; the person who set off the bomb at the end


Action Codes; when the explosion occured (loud)


Battle for Haditha;
Pritagonist; the soldier that was been shown
Equilibrium; the base (iraq) that war is atking place in a foreign country.
Disequilibrium; The card that was shown at the end started with a date: The 19th November 2005.


The dark night [Batman]
Had no protagonist shown throught out the opening two minutes
Antagonist; - The person who put the grende in the guys mouth, smoke came out of the grenade.
- The thieves:Stealing money
Action codes; the men breaking in which showed an action they had towards the money.


Shots from; Children of men

 The man who's grabbing the coffee

The explosion of the bomb






























Unfinished . . .