For my shot by shot analysis I did the opening scene of the James Bond movie Goldeneye. The first shot is a master shot a the dam where Bond is about to base jump. You see a small airplane flying and the camera pans out to get the entire view of the dam in the shot. I think that the shot of the plane adds to the shot. If it had not been in there we would have just seen a boring dam.
The second shot is a very low shot of a man (Bond) running through a gate. I like how the camera moves with the actor in this shot and makes us feel like we are running with him.
The third shot confirms to us that the character is on the dam that we saw in the master shot.
I like the next shot because it is the first shot in the scene where we can see a full shot of the actor but we cannot see his face. I think they did this on purpose because it was Pierce Brosnans first Bond movie and they wanted to "tease" the audience in this first scene.
The next 2 shots are a crafty way of showing what the character is about to do without showing a full shot of him.
The shot of the dam shows how large of a jump he is about to take.
This next shot says a few things. It shows a birdeye view of how large a jump he is about to take. It also shows enough of the character to tell us that is Bond but doesnt expose his face enough to give us a true look at the new actor.
In the next few shots of him takeing the jump I like how is face is blacked out completely by the light.
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