Now You See Me

Opening Scene

• The First shot of the opening of this film is a close up of probably one of the main characters if you have never seen the film before. The close up shot is used so that the character can demonstrate the magic trick that he will perform, not just to the audience in the film but the audience at home as the trick works on those watching at home as well.
• The Music is a quiet suspenseful tone which involves mainly synths to have a hard sound even when the music is quite quiet.
• The opening scene uses a montage to skip between showing the main characters in action. 
• Whilst showing the main characters in the film the montage creates an atmosphere and sets the film to show what type of film it will be as most of the opening shows the film to be about magicians and magic tricks/shows.
• Suspense is most commonly shown when something is hidden and then revealed and thats why this film is really good at creating suspense as the whole film is about things being hidden in magic tricks and then the trick being revealed.
• The lighting used for the 4 montage scenes are mainly natural light and sunlight except for the lighting on the inside of the building in which the Woman is performing her trick under water and the First character who seems to be lit up by street lamps and lighting from buildings.
• The Camerawork for the first 2 acts and the 4th act all show the main trick and then look towards the audience to see their reacting and so that the audience at home can have the same tense feeling of the tricks whilst being at home watching the movie on your TV.
• The Camerawork for the 3rd montage scene is mainly just shown between the jumping between the 3 characters involved and how they interact for the trick being shown.