Movie Set-Up Assignment

-> First 15 minutes of: Redemption 

Things that are set up in this time frame:

• setting defined by text and helicopter shot
• setting is desolate, isolated, dirty 
• soundtrack & muffled voices on radio transmitters initiate tension
• situation established: war
• quick, chaotic shots mimic disarray of situation
• suddenly it cuts to new setting; the city of London - there is a lot of contrast here - instead of the barren, dusty desert in the sun there is a populated, bright city at night
• even though the setting changes the war soundtrack continues; might already be establishing something about the character even though they haven't been introducted - character is no longer in the war, but it sticks with them?
• time is defined by text as well 
• first characters introduced are obviously poor, gritty, mean; you can't tell right away who the main character(s) is/are
• you know the movie is going to be action-packed (there is already a fight and chase in the first 5 minutes) 
• when character breaks into someone's home, there is no soundtrack except the guy's breathing; thinking something is going to happen and waiting for it, but it doesn't
• long shot of the character looking at himself in the mirror - identity struggle? then he puts on the clothes he finds in the house and cuts his hair - establishing a new identity
• begins to have flashbacks that are the same as the first shots in the war - finally you know this is the main character & what the significance of the beginning was (14 min in)
• at 15 minutes it becomes clear that he is looking for his girlfriend and he needs to save her; this is likely going to be his "goal" and define the plot of the movie