I am Legend opening scene

Opens with a extreme wide shot of New York city. and digetic sound of the busy city. cuts into a of medium shot of a run down part of the city. The is again digetic sound of silence all you can hear is the wind blowing and the birds singing. This shows the audience no humans are around that its abandoned and leaves the audience wondering why. there is then a high angle shot of a building that slowly pans down. to show that this whole city is empty. this cuts into a wide shot of an over grown street with all power gone. a birds eye view is then introduced over the building and pans over this abandoned city.

This then cuts into a close up match on action shot of a male picking up a gun. That follows with a medium shot showing a this man driving his car. and pans over to show he has a dog in the passenger seat. This could suggest to the audience that he has a close relationship with this dog and does all he can to protect it. This then cuts into a wide shot of the dogs head as it hangs out the car window. and pans out to a another wide shot but of the car driving through this abandoned city. with digetic sound off birds as the flea into the air. followed by a point of view shot of the man in the car driving through this abandoned city to try make the audience contect to what he is thinking and feeling. as the car drifts around the corner there is a use of a low angle shot so that audience watching can see this stunt in action.

The camrea then pans into a tank that is covered in posters that read "god still loves us " creating anticipation to the audience watching and keeping them drawn into watching them film.a wide shot of the abandoned city is then put into the shot when the camera pans following the car as it drives down the road and therfore giving the car and the man and dog in it prevence, resulting in the audience feeling they will have a great importance in the film. As the car enters down a building the camera shot turns to a point of view shot from the car stuggling to get through a tight area this build suspence for the audience watching. and cuts out into a medium shot as it leaves this building.

slowly panning to a hight angle shot of this covered building. and follows through the end of the street. this cuts into another medium shot of the dog in the car showing the audience that this dog does hold importance to the film and storyline ahead. this cuts into a medium shot of the young male when he says "what was that boy?" to his dog this is digetic sound. when it quickly cuts into a point of view shot from the car and something leaps across the car. This quickly cuts out into a extreme close up to show the reaction of this young male. and panns out into a wide shot of the car turning course.