The Dark Knight - Opening Analysis

The use of Ice within the sequence begins to build the movie up to be dark and mysterious and keeps a high level of ambiguity. As it is a psychological thriller they use the codes and conventions in the style of Cooper's work. There is also use of macro footage, jump cuts, and flickering of the camera to build suspense.

The use of dark colours within this shot shows the mystery within the whole scene as the colours of the scene are set to only black and white. This shot is very mysterious as is the whole scene as it is quite hard to predict what is about to happen and decipher what is actually happening.  Therefore the convention of being highly mysterious has been kept too, and henceforth  added suspense throughout the narrative in this scene.

Within this clip shown, the glass has been broken or partly destroyed showing that there is a disturbance within the equilibrium. This could be giving the audience an insight into what is about to happen as well as they word 'warns' been magnified by the ice as well as the word 'Gotham'  which is the city Batman protects therefore leaving the audience in suspense that something has happened within the city. This further disrupts the equlibrium, setting the film up to repair order in the form of creating a new equilibrium.