The credits of Skyfall portrays a story of the rough idea of the film to bring hype to the audience as to what may happen, and to tease then, which will excite people into watching it. The action films conventions are shown by the images in the opening sequence, such as blood, fire, and graveyards. This gives the audience a view on what the film will be like, and what kinds if things will happen, for example shooting, death, and lots of action.
The opening scene of Skyfall is a scene underwater that very promptly has James Bond smash against the water, with his corpse slowly being zoomed on and showing his body, giving the viewers an idea of what has happend to Bond. In addition, with the white surface of the water splashing everywhere it represents action and intensity as we found out that he has supposedly died. The camera slowly zooms up towards a close up of his body, which shows a gunshot on his right hand shoulder, as his body lifelessly falls into doom and darkness, represented by him slowly getting darker as he sinks and the camera tilting down on him.
Then it shows a close up of Bonds hand being grasped by a random figure, being dragged downwards, and it then zooms out to show a very large hand dragging him downwards into a spiral in the pool. Also, during the song Adele sings 'this is the end' this represents how his era has finally finished and is being taken on a journey being dragged around. It begins to start the credits as Bond's body is shown on a cutout of where he got shot, and as his body slowly falls underwater.
After a few more camera transitions showing different producers, a slow line of blood starts forming and shapes out a red skull made if blood. This represents death, in that if bond comes near you, it is the end, as quoted in the song. The song represents the slower tempo in the introduction and credits, as it is introducing all the people involved and portrays a story to the audience that is slow paced, so it can build up during the course of the film. The story portrayed is about Bond falling in love with someone that leads to their fate.
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