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Red dragon - directed by Brett Ratner.

It has a pre-title sequence

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Mise en scene
A real theatre
On a street (a rich place)


It’s an American movie, but looks very English because of the street and the building (looks a bit like London). We can see that they are rich because of the champagne, live candlelight, the clothes etc..


Camera angles
The titles fade in. Some part of the names are red and some are white: good vs. bad, on a black background which mean danger. It could maybe mean that the actors are good in the beginning and then turn bad.
Baltimore, Maryland 1980 - High angle down at the scene.
A crane shot over the conductor down at the audience, but one man stands out (our main actor) into a close up where you can see that he is worried. Then you are seeing what makes him worried (another man) on the scene. All his focus is now on the man on the scene instead of on the music.


In the house: low angle at the main actor in a three shot while he is standing up, which make him look big and important.


Editing
Shot- reverse-shot between our mian actor and the man he is seeing on the scene
Invisible cuts
The crane shot I described before in camera angles is also a "slowmotion" which is a stylistic edit, which serves to slow down an action and draw our attention to it. So all the attention was on the man.


Sound
In the beginning the music there is playing is what the actors is hearing as well (diegetic sound).
When the titles is going on in the beginning there is some mystery music, and it turns loud when the name Red dragon is shown, after that the music just keep being mystery. The high music at the "red dragon" make us want to know some more about the movie and somehow tells us that the movie is a scary/horror movie.


Special effects
The opening; the main names characters is coming first.
Its like a scrapbook, someone its writing and cutting pictures out. The pictures are black and white which tells us that its old pictures. The first picture of him its where his wearing some nice clothes with a glass of champagne in his hand, so its before he went to prison.
The person who is making this scrapbook is one who admired him.
Shot movement.