‘Start the Machine’ is not a thriller film, but is the documentary of a band break up and the reformation of another. I’m choosing to look at the opening because it uses very clever techniques when fading from one thing to another.
It starts with a spinning record with no writing on it; it is replaced with one with the band’s name on it. All you can here is the hum of the machine then the needle falls and hits the record and the screen goes white at that precise moment. Music from the band starts with the white screen, on this the titles start to appear, and then you see shadows appearing, and a form starts to appear. It turns out to be the ceiling of a plane, and the camera is walking through and if a passenger. Then the camera pans down to eye level, where it passes in to a cabin where the band front man is sitting. The camera has a close up on him, then his eyes. A different, faster song comes on and the camera zooms in to his eyes where this transforms in to shots of CGI.
Record player
Here the Records are changed
This is a repeated image from earlier, but this time when it touches the record...
The screen goes blank.
The production companies start to appear. The blue against the white stands out.
The shapes start to fade in.
The shapes become more defined.
It becomes obviouse that this is a plane.
the camera travels through the plane.
We see the bands front man.
Now a close up of the bands front man.
Now you can here a news report, reporting the break up of the mans previouse band Blink 182.
This is a clip of the news report, showing a music video from the band.
Now there is a close up on the front mans face.
The camera is a super close up of the front mans eye.
The pupil fills the screen, and the camera travels through the eye, and this turns in to a sequence of CGI introducing the band.
Good work, Ben.
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