Hunt For Red October. By Charlie!

Mise en scene:

• clothing, we see very little however what Little we can see we know represents Russian, or Russian navy.
• location is "north of the soviet sub base" we know this as it is overlaid on the second establishing shot.
• very slow zoom away from the extreme close up to reveal more of his face.
• there is no soundtrack, and no real sound until the two men converse in Russian.
• another final zoom out to reveal that the two men are on top of a submarine, we did not know where they are there until this shot. whilst we have yet another establishing shot of the submarine this time, the first bit of soundtrack is introduced. with Russian music.
• the music connotes power and patriotism, which matches the visuals because at this time the full scale of the submarine is visible and has a parallel soundtrack to match the sound and the visuals together.
• i think the lack of sound in the p.o.v shot adds to the emphasis of the scale of the submarine, large sub you would expect a large amount of noise. but that is the point, it is supposed to be a stealth war machine and adds the emphasis of the lack of sound.

Sound:

• there is little sound in this sequence, but that is done purposely to represent the purpose of the stealth submarine.
• the script is in Russian with English subtitles, this further firms the location and theme of the opening.
• the patriotic music again is another give away to the films style.

Editing:

• fade from black screen to the establishing shot of looking at the snowy mountains.
• green computer text to share their location of the shot we just saw.
• only transitions seen are the one fade. and a small hand full of cuts, as there isn't too many different shots used in the opening sequence.

Camera work:

• extreme close up on Sean Connery's face, then a slow zoom out to bring the submarine into frame.
• the extreme close up is the shot that follows the establishing shot, the two work in synergy to clarifies that the establishing shot is also a point of view shot, as the extreme close up if of his eyes looking at the mountains.
• large tracking shot that swoops from one end of the submarine to the other, this was used to show the vast scale of the submarine.
• using extremely long tracking shots of the submarine they really managed to perfectly emphasise the size of the submarine.