Research

We studied the opening scene of 'City Of God' the scene opens with the titles on a black background in complete silence, you then suddenly hear and see the sharpening of a knife, this sudden change grips the viewer and makes them want to see what is going to happen. The scene uses a flashback, the colour of the surrounding flashes back from dull to warm bright colours, this suggests that things have got worse since then. The scene uses subtitles as there only way of us understanding what the characters are saying, as the characters speak a foreign language that we would most likely not understand.