Captain America: The Winter Soldier Analysis

This is the opening 4 minutes to Captain America: The Winter Soldier. This movie is genre is an action movie, there are many conventions to show its a action movie in these 4 minutes. For example we see the superhero beating all these bad guys. This is mainly in the superhero versions of action movies for example Iron Man, Spider-Man and Thor. Another convention is all the guns the bad guys have, we tend to see the bad guys using guns more than the hero but we also see how there all terrible at aiming there guns as they mainly miss the hero, they do this to make the hero look cooler and obviously there not going to die because they have to fight a big villain at the end. The last convention is the foreign bad guys, when the hero is pinned down and the villain speaks he is speaking a different language. We usually see foreign bad guys in action movies as this is one of the general stereotypes for action. At the beginning we find out some information about the main characters for example: This hero is called Captain America and he has been around for years also he is the main hero. We also see another heroine being the Black Widow we learn she isn't the main hero but will be helping him throughout the movie. We also find out some things about the actual story. For example we see that the villain is someone the hero knows making this a much more dramatic movie. We also hear that people are going to die something big is being planned and the heroes have to stop it from happening. 

We are left asking some key questions in the opening 4 minutes for example what is the villain planning? Why is this villain so important to the hero? Who is the villain? Were left asking these questions so we watch the rest of the movie and answer the questions. These questions also link to the conventions of action movies for example the who is the villain question is asked many times in action movies as it is usually left a secret till the middle of the movie and its a big reveal. 

Sound is used well in the trailer as notice that there is no music being played while the hero fights these bad guys whereas when the heroine fights bad guys there is loud bangs everytime she hits them in a bad way. This is used well because when the hero does it, it is expected but when the heroine fights its one of the first fight scenes we see with her. Some diegetic sounds we hear that are effective are the helicopter sounds and waves clashing this is effective as we know there on a helicopter following a boat this shows it is probably a top secret mission. Camera effects are used well for example when the hero is jumping out of the plane we see how big the boat is showing how many bad guys the hero would have to fight showing how this will be cool scene with the hero and villain. The camera adds effect as well in another scene when it is at a low angle looking up at the hero defeating all the bad guys this shows he is big, tough and bigger than the bad guys. The fast paced cutting is used well as in each cut we see the hero beating the bad guys it makes it more effect as we can see how fast and much stronger the hero is.