Casino Royal

The scene begins at night with a black and white picture; this connotes enigma and mystery instantly because filmmakers nowadays use this effect in order to create a dark and dim atmosphere for the film. Firstly onscreen a car pulls up in front of a tall building and a high angle camera shot is filming a man in a trilby getting out of the car. This instantly connotes the genre of a type of film noir with the black and white picture, mysterious feel and of course the famous shot of a mysterious looking man in a trilby and the viewer instantly knows that this film is therefore going to be set in the murder, mystery type of adventure genre. The camera tracks this man into a small office, again just like the type you would find in a traditional film noir picture and again suggesting this feel of mystery. Setting is established here through setting and the use of the black and white picture.

Character is also established instantly at the beginning of this film as when the man enters the office the camera cuts to a shot of Bond sat in a chair, he is already inside the office, and we instantly know that this is an unexpected surprise to the man, as he doesn’t look as though he was expecting company. The two characters exchange a sequence of conversation talking about how many characters Bond as killed, and how he isn’t yet of the status ‘00.’ When this is said a connection is instantly made with the title itself of 007. The famous Bond status and we know that this character will play possibly the main character in the film.

Music also plays a part in establishing the films genre, within the opening credits the song that is played is ‘’ you know my name’ performed by Chris Connell, in which can be seen as quite a slow song but also you can associate it with this sense of mystery. When the opening credits begin you see a series of animation of guns and people getting shot and falling down, this also plays a part in generating the basis of what the film will consist of; a lot of gun crime, men in suits, and adventure.

Action is used also to establish character, we see a gun being held in bonds direction, and this connotes that this character dabbles in violence as he himself is a wanted character, but it establishes that the character of Bond is good within the film because of his secret agent status. We also no that this character of Bond can be extremely violent as we see him committing two murders within the first few seconds of the films itself and he does this with no sense of remorse, this is a very strong character. The 2 murders also connote a strong amount of murder and violence throughout the film as we have already witnessed it at the very start, before the opening credits. The last shot before the opening credits establishes the character of bond and what he is about as his quick reflexes showing him turning and killing a man, with a point of view shot from the man he is shooting at, and finally a transition of picture with blood running down the screen with Bond himself in the centre of a gun whole, all of this connotes; the main character, the fact he is violent and the initial genre of the film: adventure mystery.