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Opening Sequence- Sci-Fi

Ready Player One

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Opening Sequence- Sci-Fi

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  1. SCI-FI OPENING- READY PLAYER ONE

  2. READY PLAYER ONE • Ready player one is a 2018 American Science-Fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline based on Cline’s 2011 novel of the same name. It takes place in 2045, when much of humanity uses the virtual reality software OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation) to escape the real world. Orphaned teenager Wade Watts (Sheridan) finds clues to a hidden game that promises OASIS’s ownership to the winner, and he and four allies try to complete it before a corporation run by businessman Nolan Sorrento (Mendelsohn) can do so.

  3. WHAT NARRATIVE IS GIVEN TO US, AND FROM THIS WHAT DO WE EXPECT THE REST OF THE FILMS NARRATIVE WILL BE FROM THE LITTLE INFORMATION WE HAVE SEEN? • Wade Watts is a teenager who lives in a slum with his aunt. He attends school within the OASIS but lacks the virtual currency of XP levels to travel to other locations. He is a ‘gunter’ (an egg hunter) who spends all his spare time researching films, songs, TV series and videogames from the 1980s and 90s to aid his hunt. • The narrative of the opening scene shows Wade and his morning routine. He seems comfortable hopping from mobile home to mobile home. To the audience it seems like second nature to him. • From this opening scene, we can infer that we will see the life of young Wade Watts and his journey in this 2045 sci-fi world.

  4. WHO IS TARGET AUDIENCE FOR THIS FILM, HOW DO WE KNOW THIS FROM THE OPENING SCENE? • I got an over riding feeling when watching the Opening Scene that Ernest Cline’s target audience is those gamers and geeks from the 1980s as well as in todays society. • AGE GROUP OF 15-50

  5. HOW IS THE GENRE OF THE FILM SET UP IN THE OPENING SCENE? WHAT KEY CONVENTIONS HAVE BEEN USED? • TIMETRAVEL • The opening scene beings with an establishing shot of the slums in 2045. It is clear that Cline has transported his audience into the future. A key sci-fi genre convention. There are high tech gadget like, drones, droids and VR sets to emphasize this new digital world A theme of Minds being controlled is introduced in the VR sets that lots of characters are wearing in the scene. What media or information is being screened on the VR sets? Are they being controlled by governments or do adverts pop up to influence the people in 2045? Even at really young ages… Cline has created a dystopian fictional world. In 2045 people seek to escape from reality through the virtual reality entertainment universe called the OASIS (Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation). Every person we see in the opening is wearing VR head sets apart from the protagonist and an older lady who is watering plants. .

  6. HOW MANY CHARACTERS ARE INTRODUCED AND WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THEM? HOW DO WE KNOW THIS ABOUT THEM FROM THE USE OF TECHNICAL ASPECTS? We are introduced to an older lady. Something interesting about this lady is that she is the only person to have live plant and flowers outside her mobile home. She is tending to them as the camera tracks Wade go past her house. We see an older teenage boy emerge out of a small and run down mobile home. He is wearing glasses making him seem intelligent. They are small and rimmed with silver, the typical glasses you would see on a grandad. She seems like a caring and calming character as she is tending to her flowers and keeping the only aspect of life and greenery that we see in the opening scene. From his glasses, clothes and backpack that he wears on both shoulders, I get the impression he is an intelligent and geeky character.

  7. MISE EN SCENE This story setting is placed in Oklahoma City in the year 2045. It starts out with a macro view of earths overall condition.. Climate change is leading to sea level rise, ecosystems dying off, resources being scarce, famine and homelessness. In Wades micro setting, he lives with his Aunt and two other families in a double-wide trailer affixed to the top of a stack of 20 or so other trailers. This stack is surrounded with other various sized stacks interconnected by pipes, support systems and bridges and are powered by old solar panels. At the ground level between these stacks lay mounds of abandoned cars and rubbish and one of these mounds is where Wade discovered a hidden van that he uses for his hide out for privacy. While in his hide out, he accesses another setting within the virtual world of OASIS. The colours of the setting are monochrome, with themes of black, grey and white. This connotes that this is a poorer part of town and creates a monotonous and boring style of life. We see a character ordering a pizza that gets delivered by a drone, unhealthy eating is stereotypical of less well off areas further emphasizing the location of ‘The Stacks’/ slums. A HUGE LED screen is blasting adverts across ’The Stacks’. Further creating the dystopia futuristic world of Ohio in 2045.

  8. SOUND The title sequence is accompanied by the ICONIC and well known pop song ‘JUMP’ by Van Halen. This upbeat and energetic song perfectly sets the tone for the Sci-Fi Action movie that ’Ready player One is’. It immediately puts a smile on the audiences face and uplifts the mood. Through the use of editing, the action matches the beat of ’Jump’ the non-diegetic accompaniment. The first establishing shot flashes on screen on the first small climax in the song. Another key moment of sound is the use of diegetic machines whirring and whizzing past the camera drone. The diegetic sound effectively gets louder the closer the ‘gadget’ is to the camera, this 3D experience reflects the high tech Sci-Fi world we are immersed into.

  9. CAMERA WORK An establishing shot is used early on to show the magnitude of the new found dystopia. The camera movement is futuristic to reflect the clear advancements in technology that have been made within this film universe. The tracking long shot with the over the shoulder feel shows the audience the difference of the protagonists size compared to the vast savana of clear advancements. The first close up shot the audience sees of Wade is from an up angle. This makes Wade seem significant and important, creating an engima code of WHO IS THIS CHARACTER AND WHY IS HE IMPORTANT?

  10. SUCCESSFUL OPENING??? I think that this is a very successful Opening Scene. I think Spielburg has created a wonderful, busy, detailed and intricate Dystopian world and immersed the audience through the use of technical aspects.

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