Die Hard 4 Mini Micro

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A Mini Micro analysis of the Opening Scene in Die Hard 4.0 (Len Wiseman 2007) In this scene we are shown a group of people working at what seems to be a high tech building hacking into the government's computer system. They are delivering some sort of virus to some other people. One of the men say "is this legal" and the woman replies"were just doing some tests, its fine", this shows that these people are up to no good as the man wouldn't be worried otherwise. The sequence i am going to analyse is the opening scene to the movie. Through the whole of the scene the colour isn't very full, it's a bit monotone, and this suggests that were watching information not a storyline. The film is based around computer and we are shown that in the first scene by the way that the people's names are written as they would be on a computer and dissolves away like it
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would on a computer, connoting the films storyline. It begins with a 12 second take which begins with a close up of the back of a computer with a hall with many other computers in the background. The camera then cuts to a close up of a woman's face as she works on a computer and talking to a man who is also working on a computer. The camera then reframes to a close up of the side of another man's face as he works on a computer. The camera then cuts into a shot reverse shot of the two ...

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