Throughout the opening scene of mad max there are many genre indicators that were shown such as explosions and chasing cars, this has a huge effect as it tells the audience the genre of the film is action film and because the beginning of the film is so packed with explosions, and all the violent scenes really draws the audiences attention as they would straight away want to watch more because if the beginning of the film is so good than they would think that the rest of the film would be just as good or even better. Another indicator that it is a science fiction film is because it is set in the future and evil characters are involved in a deserted area.
The audience must be wondering a range of questions throughout the opening scene, this is such as why is he being captured? This would probably be the biggest question that they would wonder because of it is so random and so sudden that somebody is being captured and nobody knows the background behind on what is happening, they are also probably wondering who is he? as out of no where characters are just appearing and this is all jam packed right at the beginning of the film the audience will be wondering and this will make them carry on watching so they answer there questions. Another question the audience are wondering would be where is it set? This is because it looks like a deserted area, which is most in the middle of no where and its the most unusual place to have a action film set, but it still works and makes the film very effective.
Right at the beginning when the clip starts playing there is no music playing, this is effective because it creates tension as created a specific mood and feels like you're actually there with them and moving along with them, this also makes it all feel much more realistic then usual when you have music playing behind which is projected. When the characters are getting chased near the end of the clip the beat of the music speeds up and creates more of a tense mood as it makes the audience worried if they are going to get caught or what's going to happen next because they don't actually know.
There are two camera shots that stood out to me while watching this scene, and these were the medium shots and the long shot. The medium shot introduced us to the characters and really gave us a chance to see them properly instead of having a quick glance of them all and then having to wait until throughout the film, this means also that we know for the rest of the film that we know who is who, and we've had a good realisation on who is the good and who is the bad. The long shot was my favourite, this occurred at 1:00 into the scene and this showed one of the main characters with the surroundings as well, this was effective because it clearly showed the audience the settings that this will be set in and overall was just a very good shot, also about this shot that was effective was how the camera followed the lizard up to the character and slowly got closer and closer in, this was good because it made it very tense for the audience as they didn't know when it was going to change scene.
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