>How do film techniques create meaning in the opening sequence? part 3

> Transitions and camera movement are somewhat similar, in the way that they both involve some kind of movement, but the transitions, or movement from one position to another, are a smaller part.
The transitions mainly occur in the apperance and disappearance of the images throughout the sequence. The images are 'wiped' from the screen by a black panel or colour block as mentioned in the composition blog.
This ensures that there is constant movement on screen, in keeping with the action genre.

By having the screen constantly moving and changing, the viewer begins to understand the mood of the film, and that there will always be something going on, it makes the viewer aware of the tone, and helps the director to set the scene, so that there will be less time wasted at the beginning of the film, establishing genre.

The transitions are used as a referance to the genre and theme of the movie, the director has made allusions to the constant movement and action in the film. By making transitions seamless and endless (one entire moving transition), the pace of the movie has been represented. This helps the viewer, along with other techniques, to understand the movie they are about to see, and its genre, before they begin watching the storline unfold.
This is similar to other superhero movies, because most of these movies are action or drama based films, often the opening sequence is similar in that, the speed of transitions and/or camera movements are fast paced and clean, to represent the genre.
The fast cutting and changing of the transitions carries on throughout the film, in many or all of the action scenes. The director has used fast cutting throughout the film, to enhance the idea of action. If an action scene was shot in one continous action, or in a few slower shots, it would not be nearly as exciting as a scene where there is fast cuts between points of view and characters. The transitions, we can see, reflect the action throughout the film.

This technique creates meaning by using the link between the action in the film, and the movement and transitions in the opening sequence, to establish genre, mood and tone. The fast paced movement, very similar, if not identical to the motion of the camera, and overall movement, recreates the action throughout the film, the above screen shot, gives a glimpse of the action.