film opening - Contact

For my homework i had to look at three film openings from a link, and i had to choose one to analyse. The three film openings that i looked at were Casino Royale, Contact, and A new hope. I chose to post Contact on my blog.

I found "contact" to be the best film opening because it was interesting the way the camera was zooming out the whole way at a constant speed, and as it got towards the end it sped up. The opening basicaly shows our solar system and zooms out to the universe which then zooms out to a persons eye. At the start of the opening it is very dark, there is also a mix of different types of music. The first shot zooms out from the earth into a long shot with the sun, moon, and earth. the camera stays in one position throughout the whole opening of the universe. In the middle of the opening lots of bright colours form, and the music fades away into no sound.It looks like it is going back through time because the camera zooms out and moves backwards.
At the end it zooms out from the universe and in the same shot goes into an extreme close-up of a persons eye. This connotes that there is a whole universe inside of us.