The Dark Knight (2008)Christopher Nolan

Jordan Joseph

Action, Crime, Drama

The scene starts with a long shot of a tall shiny building in the

distance, surrounded by other buildings, to imply possibly that

it’s an ordinary building.

As the shot continues of the same image, the shot of the building begins to zoom in.

Whilst the shot zooms in, a window on the building breaks open, in relation to this, the scene quickly changes to a room of a man on the inside who seems to have broken the window Moments after the shot

changes to a high angle shot within the same room, which also in the room includes a shot of another masked man’s head as well as the first masked man in the room

As the man shoots out his grappling hook the scene changes once again, to a neutral shot of a man facing the other direction slowly zooming inwards, with a large bag over his shoulder and a mask in his left hand, the reason behind this shot may possibly be to allow the audience to assume something troubling is about to happen

Precisely as the zoom of the clown mask stops, the shallow focus changes to a car which takes up most of the screen for main focus, which has just arrived on the scene

that the man enters.

as he opens the door, the scene cuts back to the two men who were in the room.As they zip wire from one building to the top of another, the camera first shows a pan aerial shot of the ground to emphasise how high up they are

It then changes to a pan aerial shot of the two masked men travelling across the zip line, as the men land on the new building the camera is much more closer to the two figures, most likely to emphasise and make more realistic their landing. Upon landing, the camera cuts to a shot of the car previously seen with a over the shoulder shot of 3 men in it within the car to give the viewers the feel that they are right there

As the men who were once in the car now frantically rush out into a building, which is displayed by the panning of the camera which moves as quick as they do.

As the men enter the building and begins shooting and shouting to scare everyone within the bank, the camera once again pans with them possibly to make any viewers feel closer to the action.

The shot of the man drilling through the vault is accompanied by a slow zoom to the working drill for added detail

Before cutting back to the other group of masked men but specifically to a shallow focus, the glass behind him breaks and the depth of field changes behind him to more focused and you see a long shot of a man in a suit with a shot gun in his hand

With a wide shot, a yellow school bus enters the scene killing one of the masked men, with the driver killed, leaving only one masked man, the camera focuses on him.

For example, how the camera pans his every movement

As the man in the suit laying on the floor close to death shouts out, the camera jumps from him, to the masked man showing him getting closer to the camera, to portray how the man in the suit possibly sees it all

Also to emphasise the position of the man in the suit the camera faces downwards towards him to imply he is weak in this current situation

As the masked man takes off his mask to reveal himself, the camera shot is of low angle and closes up, looking upwards as well to portray his power in the current situation between the two and to also show the man on the floor’s perspective

As the joker drives off out of the building, the camera shot zooms outwards to a sort of establishing shot, it shows that he camouflages in with a bunch of other school busses and the police are too late