Task 2.1: Thriller Film Intro Analysis - Fight Club

The opening to this film starts off with very intense music with visuals and the credits. This tells the audience that the film is going to be very intense and quite violent because of how hard hitting the song is.
The camera is then shown from an extreme close up of a gun in the Narrator's mouth. His eyes are made to look dark and ill to emphasise that he is both incredibly tired and that he has had several fights. It's also done to set the dark theme of this film up along with the lighting. We can see sweat dripping from his forehead, this is put in the shot to show that he is under stress and it makes the audience wonder what is going on.

The character of Tyler never reveals his face. The first shot of him is a close up of his back and as he walks away, it becomes an extreme medium shot as he is out of focus. The denotation is that it's dark and the audience feels rather uncomfortable. Outside of the building, looking into it from a window, it shows a medium shot of Tylers body but we only see up to his face, again, adding to the mystery - not showing the antagonist's face straight away is a convention of thriller films as well.
As the narration goes on, the camera falls and we hear diegetic sounds of cars and police sirens in order to make it feel like the two characters are in danger.
As the camera goes underground, we see a van with a bullet hole in as the camera goes through the bullet hole, this connotes that something dangerous had been going on and it keeps the audience worried.

The non-diegetic sound of the narrator explains about buildings being blown up whilst the camera moves around different rooms showing different bombs. All of these different shots cut to each other very quickly which is also a convention of a thriller film.

At the end of the introduction, there is a medium shot of the narrator staring into the camera as it zooms into his face. This builds up the intensity and the mystery as he narrates. In the background, there are buildings which he has already said are going to blow up and he his sitting in front of them as if to say that all of this is his fault.