Sound for ATMOSPHERE example

Here's a great example of how music can be used subtly for great effect

Children of Men - Opening Sequence

Here is the 'Children of Men' opening for you to analyse. Info about the film can be found here:
IMDB
Wikipedia
Rotten Tomatoes
The numbers - there are figures for DVD sales too (do a search, top left)

To watch this file bigger, go to the P-drive in school, choose the following path:

CGSSTORE3/Media Studies - NEW/Resources Library/Videos/Film and TV Openings

Use of colour - Opening of Phantom of the Opera

Look carefully at this extract for the use of colour but also for a very effective use of lighting and Mise-en-Scene, to an effective starting of the movie in a different time frame, to giving a back story to the events about to take place in the film's narrative and as an excellent example of an opening of a film.