Wall-E:
The opening of Wall-E starts with the camera slowly panning
through space giving the audience immediate indication that the film is leading
them into Sci-Fi territory. The editing then speeds up showing the camera
speeding down to what looks like a deserted, dusty uncharted planet, again
showing Sci-Fi elements. Bright ambient lighting presumably from the sun lights
up the planet after the camera has once again sped through the clouds.
The scenery shows huge pillars of what appear to be scrap metal towering above abandoned and dusty skyscrapers. These few seconds of the camera passing through the empty ‘city’ give a huge amount of information to the audience. The audience now know this will be a sci-fi movie as there is no way in real life scrap would be stacked so high giving the sense of the unreal to the audience. However what is most shocking about this scene is the realisation that this used to be the planet Earth now abandoned and left for dead. This gives the yet more evidence to the fact this is a Sci-Fi film due to the apocalyptic nature of the film.
The empty streets and junk piled high with a barren wasteland surrounding the former city is nothing like what the Earth looks like today, making the audience believe that they may be glimpsing into the future of the planet; all features of a Sci-Fi film.
The sound featured in the film is a quite breeze from the wind and the occasional ambient noise in the distance. This gives the sense of abandon and really adds to the apocalyptic nature of the film, being another Sci-Fi element.
Once the camera slows down with the editing pace, it lowers to the streets spinning and turning corners giving the impression the camera is exploring a new planet and it is not sure what it will find, adding to the Sci-Fi elements.
Perhaps the biggest giveaway that this is a Sci-Fi film is the fact the main character is a robot. Robots in films are almost exclusive to the Sci-Fi genre with very few exceptions.
This opening tells a big story about the state of the planet we are exploring in this Sci-Fi world without saying a word.
The scenery shows huge pillars of what appear to be scrap metal towering above abandoned and dusty skyscrapers. These few seconds of the camera passing through the empty ‘city’ give a huge amount of information to the audience. The audience now know this will be a sci-fi movie as there is no way in real life scrap would be stacked so high giving the sense of the unreal to the audience. However what is most shocking about this scene is the realisation that this used to be the planet Earth now abandoned and left for dead. This gives the yet more evidence to the fact this is a Sci-Fi film due to the apocalyptic nature of the film.
The empty streets and junk piled high with a barren wasteland surrounding the former city is nothing like what the Earth looks like today, making the audience believe that they may be glimpsing into the future of the planet; all features of a Sci-Fi film.
The sound featured in the film is a quite breeze from the wind and the occasional ambient noise in the distance. This gives the sense of abandon and really adds to the apocalyptic nature of the film, being another Sci-Fi element.
Once the camera slows down with the editing pace, it lowers to the streets spinning and turning corners giving the impression the camera is exploring a new planet and it is not sure what it will find, adding to the Sci-Fi elements.
Perhaps the biggest giveaway that this is a Sci-Fi film is the fact the main character is a robot. Robots in films are almost exclusive to the Sci-Fi genre with very few exceptions.
This opening tells a big story about the state of the planet we are exploring in this Sci-Fi world without saying a word.
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