Iron Man Opening Analysis

Camera
The first camera shots starts inside an army convoy. It is a shot that is looking through Tony Starks eyes. We can see what he is seeing when he is being escorted through an area. Most of the shots are close ups and medium long shots. This given the impression that there are cramped in the car and there is not much room to move. When the car in front blows up there are lots of quick cuts and changing of camera angles. This shows that how quickly an attack can happen and that if you are not ready you will most probably not survive.

Mise En Scene
The setting is in an open space inside and army truck. They used props such as a camera, guns and a explosive rocket. The colours are mainly the same colour of the army camouflage so that they blend in. At the end of the opening, Tony has lots of cuts all over his face. This make up would have taken hours to prepare. The sound is all diegetic as we can only hear the explosions and talking that Tony can hear.

Sound
The sound is all diegetic as we can only hear what Tony can here. As tony gets hit by the rocket the sound slowly fades out making him feel alone as he is in the middle of nowhere and his bleeding heavily.

Editing
The opening of the film mainly has straight cuts. When the rocket hits Tony, all the sound fades out so you can only hear him breathing. The camera then zooms and fades out taking us to another location. I thought that this was really good because all of the straight cuts were fast as that pace to show the explosions but when he gets hit, the camera slows down to show that he is dying slowly and we don't know if he will live.