Film Opening Analysis & AOTT Research (DYM)

• The Title sequence above was for 'The Avengers', a superhero, action film.
• The film takes place mostly around New York or on a massive, invisible aircraft carrier that the superhero team known as 'The Avengers' fly around on. The plot centres around The Avengers saving the world from disaster when Thor (a godlike member of the group) realises his evil brother Loki is attempting to become the king of the Earth by creating a gateway for an alien army invasion by using a dangerous, mysterious object called the Tesseract.  The film seems to go on for a period of three or four weeks.
• The sequence shows the different iconic items that each superhero member of the Avengers possesses showing us the connection between the different characters through their linkage in this superhero team. The character's items such as Captain America's shield and Iron Man's armoured costume appear to be quite damaged to show the aftermath of their fighting by the end of the film, to show the danger of their job and to perhaps symbolise the fact that the team at the start are broken and rusty just like their weapons, but by the end of the film they will be tight and ready for future action.
• Captain America's is first introduced by the showing of his symbolic shield, helmet and costume, Hawkeye's bow and arrows are then introduced to show his role to play in the Avengers,  Iron Man's armoured suit is then shown, then glasses of Bruce Banner the man who turns into Hulk are introduced, and after that Thor's hammer is shown. This introduces all the members of the team apart from Blackwidow who hasn't got a distinctive item to show for herself.
• We do not see why the different items are all damaged, so the audience is to wonder why they are in that state, what action th group will be involved in, and whether they will all work well together as superheroes.

These two pictures are of two title seqences. The Avengers is the one at the top and Reservoir Dogs is the one below. They are both contrasting on the basis that the Reservoir Dogs title sequence introduces us to the characters of a group of gangsters, whereas the Avengers introduces us to the symbolic items owned by a team of superheros instead. The Reservoir dogs sequence also shows character relations between the group as they are walking down the road, but The Avengers sequence withhelds character relation's knowledge between the group from the audience. Also the Reservoir Dogs sequence is filmed in a basic, stop-start matter to upbeat music showing close up cuts of each member and The Avengers sequence does also show close ups of character symbols, but does so with a variety of extreme close ups and close ups with smooth camera movement drifting around a room. The individuality of both group's members are shown in both sequences, for the superhero's weapons and costumes are all entirely unique and different from one another in The Avengers, and it is clear despite the black and white suit uniform most characters have in the Reservoir Dogs sequence, each character has very contrasting personalities shown in the different close ups and the gaits from the crab shot and the mannerisms they display in the multiple close ups of the characters walking down the road, e.g. Mr White's character shown first shows a completely different personality to that of Mr Brown played by the director Quentin Tarantino, for Mr White seems very tense, up-right, reserved and serious, but Mr Brown looks bumbling, affable, jokey and relaxed. This individuality between characters in a unified group shows a strange uniqueness that bond the title sequences for both The Avengers and also Reservoir Dogs too.