opening to 'The Interpreter'.

The pace of the title sequence is quite slow, and starts with a prologue where the titles are stopped as to not disrupt the narrative. The title sequence starts off with universal studies, and then the four different production companies. The title sequence involves the sound of wind blowing, creating an unsure, uneasy openness. The non diegetic sound, is taken from the next shot. The actors names come zooming out and then dissolve into the black background behind. The prologue is slow paced, and as it finishes reveals the more or less abandoned setting.

An establishing shot, establishes the setting in Africa, showing a traditional women carrying things on her head, with a hazy mist and alot of dust, coming off the roads to show that it isn't filmed in a rich, industrialised country.
The shots then skip to a forward time, with the camera on a crane, helping to establish the place. The African setting is also hinted at due to chanting, which could be either diegetic or non diegetic. Its difficult to establish what is going on, until the camera focuses on the three characters in the jeep, and zooms into the notebook in the hand of one of the characters. We are unable to read what the notebook says, but can tell that its important due to the zoom in on it, the camera then zooms back out and cuts to an exterior shot.

The camera cuts from each character, shot reverse shot, with dialogue to accompany it but its unclear as to what is said due to it not being in English. The camera then switches to the back of the car along side the characters, with hints of there being a a mass slaughter, and they are there to investigate. Artificial sound effects are heard, showing that photos are being taken, when the photo is being taken it switches to a black and white, still frame showing these photos need to be taken notice of, as they could be important to the narrative. We also get the view that the setting is derelict and something happened there to make it so deserted. We can tell its deserted due to the weeds growing, and lack of windows and doors. When the "sports ground" comes into view, we get a low angle shot showing its importance in the film. There is then another establishing shot of the jeep as it pulls up in the car park, and shows how small it is compared to the sports ground. A cut in action is then cut in to remind the audience about the notebook.

As we see a silhouette in the main doorway, sound effects for a hearbeat are then heard, over exagerated showing the man in the doorway should be feered. This is a low angle shot, placed in the left third of the screen. Two of the characters from the jeep enter the sports ground, while the other with the notebook stays in the jeep. As they take a tour through, there are alot of black rooms, rudden with death bodies. We then see a child with a machine gun, who shoots two people before the names of the directors and people such as screenplay in section to both the left and the right of the screen.

This then leads to us understanding what the main characters job is, he is a interpreter. There are alot of fast paced panning shots as another car turns up, the directors name is then in white writing centered in the screen. Although there is alot of conversation in a language other than English, we don't get any subtitles so we don't know what they are saying, or what the writing means showing a need for the interpreter to be there.

There is then a cut to a UN meeting, where we hear a women's voice that appears to be translating something, there is then another cut to the security section towards the doors of a building, and their scanner machines begin to break, this then leads to a security lock down, and everyone is evaluated