Opening Scenes of "Venom", "Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift," and "Guardians of the Galaxy"

Hey it's Xena! 

So recently we've been working on opening scenes. We made a list of our top  favorite movies and out of those 5 movies we chose 3 to find the length of the scene, the camera movements and angles, and finally summarize the entire scene.

 Venom 2018 ( Action/Adventure)

The opening scene to Venom is 4 minutes and 49 seconds long. In this time we see that the scene starts of in outer space, from there we start to see the opening credits and a small white speck that slowly increases in size as it come closer to the camera and is revealed to be a spaceship. There is some dialogue exchanged between the astronauts and the people on Earth. Then, the tone of the dialogue starts to sound like panic. We then see the spaceship start to crash through the atmosphere and then eventually crash in a forest. The camera then cuts to a different location that looks like mission control. A man in a suit exchanges dialogue with a women that likes to be a scientist and a women in front of a computer. He asked a women," Did we at least retrieve all of the samples." The women response with, " No, we have three of them, one of the organisms got out of containment and it's missing. We don't know which one." The camera then cuts back to the crash and we see and container being carried by two people in hazmat suits, we also see the bodies of two dead astronauts. When a women yells something in a different language and we see that one astronaut survived the crash. 

This connects to the overall plot of the story because it shows where these organisms came to Earth, how they can go from person to person, and it also show us some important characters. 

Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift 2006 (Action/Drama)

 The opening scene to Fast and Furious: Tokyo drift is 4 minutes and 37 seconds long. Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift is an action/ drama film. At the beginning of the opening scene, we hear hip-hop music and see high schoolers walking around and going through metal detectors. Then we see the main character of the movie enter the shot and stat getting a pat down. He makes eye contact with a boy in a mascot costume also gets pat down and smirks. The camera then cuts and zooms out revealing 15 different screens that seem to be from security cameras. We cut to a classroom then a parking lot where students are hitting an Indian piñata, then back to the main character who looks very amused by this action. The camera then cuts to an automotive garage where the main character is underneath a car. He sees someone getting dragged out by 3 boys and gets up to see what's going on, he sees the boy getting car paint sprayed on him and walks away, the camera then cuts back to the parking lot where he sees a girl painting her nails while going to his car. Dialogue is exchanged and the girl’s boyfriend comes over very upset, the main character gets in his car and drives away when the girl's boyfriend throws something through his window, so he stops the car and gets out with a wrench, the two men share looks and the opening scene ends. 

 

This connects to the overall plot of the film because it tells the reason why something will happen to the main character. 

Guardians of the Galaxy 2014 (Action/Sci-fi)

The opening scene to Guardians of the Galaxy is 1 minute and 51 seconds, its a action/sci-fi movie. The scene first open to the main character in what looks like a cave. the main character then puts on headphones and music and starts singing and dancing while kicking alien rats around. he then looks over a large gap and uses rockets in his shoes to get over it, he then comes across two large doors and opens it to reveal that he is trying to steal something the object is a sphere looking object.

This connects to the overall plot of the film because it shows the main character and it shows an object that might be important to the movie.