ARMAGEDDON The first setting, which is in space, introduces the film. It has a voice over, who is a man with an American accent, and a deep voice. This voice has obviously

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 The first setting, which is in space, introduces the film. It has a voice over, who is a man with an American accent, and a deep voice. This voice has obviously been done on purpose, because if a women did the voice over, then it would not reach the desired affect to seem mysterious. The setting shows us what the world looked like millions of years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the earth. The voice over tells us that a meteorite, just 6 miles wide, changed the world. It told us what happened where it struck, what happened when it struck and the devastation that it caused. Towards the end of his speech, he says, “ It happened before, and it will happen again, but the question is when”. After these words have been said, the word “Armageddon” is displayed on the screen, telling us the name of the film. This word means the end of mankind where everything is destroyed. These words grip the audience and make them want to watch more.

The music that is used is very slow and miserable, no heavy rock music, just the sort of music that is usually used in sci-fi films. The title is displayed on the screen in a yellow/red colour, which is the colour of fire, and is displayed for about 3 seconds before it shows it being destroyed, as the world would.

The second setting, which shows some sort of mission in space, it shows us an astronaut fixing an satellite, but unfortunately it is destroyed (as well as the shuttle that they came in) and chaos happens, but is controlled in a quite a sensible and calm way. Truman, who works there and who is in charge, handles the situation very well, he gets people to find out what happened, he sends out the air force in case of a surprise missile attack and alerts the president. There is no panicking going on, which shows us that Truman is excellent at handing these situations. At the start of the film, not a lot happened, it was set in space and the music was gentle and there were not many (if not any) camera cuts. But when chaos happens at Nasa, there is a lot of shouting and talking, people looking worried, loud music and lots of camera cuts.

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After the chaos at NASA, it cuts to New York and immediately we hear rock music. This music illustrates the fact that the city life is very loud and fast paced, which is how the music is. We see normal people, rushing to work, selling something, sitting in a traffic jam, and these are all normal things that you would expect to see in everyday in New York. We noticed that it was a typical American city; yellow city cabs, American news in a shop window etc, and tells the audience that this film is going to focus ...

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