The Mummy

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-The opening of the movie starts with the Universal, this does not have the traditional, soundtrack for Universal and instead has the tense build up music for the movie.
-The transition of the Universal globe it turns in to the sun, which works well and is effective transition
-The transition shot truns into a shot where the place is configured, we see pyramids and old egyptian buildings instantly telling us where it is set, in Egypt.
-The shot is pan and helps us to Establish the whole area and as we go past we see little things moving, puts in a place to assume they are humans and at that point we hear people and also a dog.
-As soon as the establishing and panning is over we close up to a horse and a man, we then hear a voice as well, which is a narrator.
-The main character is established and by using a narraator he is also introduced, the next character is his mistress, who is seen with the head turn, she walks in, again the palace where she walks in from is established, she is then followed in by the camera, upto the point of when they both meet.
-The camera moves back to the door she came in from and we see a third main character, the door is shut from behind.
-The first & second main character for some reason we are not sure of yet is killed and were warned by the narrator before "for their love they were willing to risk life itself.
-The music used from when she enters is all majestic and passionate manner, also if this is compared to the entrance of the third character the music shown is loud drums and a loud horn these sounds are non diegetic sounds but the door sounds moving and lound bangs are most likely diegetic sounds.
-The sounds from after the killing of the thrid mian character, we hear lound bangs as the door is being forced open, giving us the sense of alert and um a thought of who is trying to come in also we have an idea why, due to the third person be killed.
-We see what lokos like an army with another main character, walking in forcing the doors open, we see the slaves of the first main character take him away and talking of the first and second characters n Egyption most likely saying to go, run away. Meduim shots are used quite a bit we have a shot at where the emotion of the womens face are shown as the first character is leaving and it is her love and then we see the army people storming in over her shoulder.
-The army storms in and straight away we see her turn to them she says something to them as they discover the third main character is dead on the floor, she kills herself.
-As soon as she is in the process of killing her self the shot changes to behind the covers and next door with a close up we see both characters again, the pain  on his face this time where she kills her self.
-Used teice in just a 3 minute clip we see that, when their is a death happening, killing is on progress the camera moves towards others shows their emotions as well being able to see the people killing themselves but only their body shape, basically a shadow of them behind a cloak, this is very clever and useful trick.
-This then is lead to a blackening of the shot and is cleverly moved to the night shot where it is also black and then faded back in where we some lights in the distance.
-Except from the ending we see that the lighting is all at dusk with the odd dark spots but mostly with the characters all being lit up and luminent with the hint of yellow tint because it can be said as a symbolic colour of those times and we also see the flame torches lit up around all around.
-The sound consisted in the movie is a wide range with diegitic and non-diegetic, also the shots used are normal shots but used very well that you dont even realise while watching, the transitions used are also clever and effective, the costumes are realistic of those times and do show the wealth and status of the person, also there where some items included such as; swords, daggers, carts, neckalces, bracelets, head band, statues, earings, pillars, tombs, bed, helmets, body armour, paintings, decoratins, tattoo's, and rings.