Analysing Opening Scenes - 'Top Gun: Maverick'

 

The second opening scene I am going to analyse is the action/adventure film 'Top Gun: Maverick'.

- Production company logos 

- Titles/credits (Top gun maverick, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connely, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Ed Harris, Val Kilmer, Tom Cruise)

- Music (The music starts off slow and gently speeds up until it suddenly becomes intense, indicating that this is an action/adventure film)

- Setting (The action is all happening on an aircraft carrier based in the middle of the ocean)

- Main character 

- Genre (We find out that this is an action/thriller film when exciting/dramatic music starts playing as a jet swiftly takes off from an aircraft carrier)