Goldeneye Evaluation Essay

The Effectiveness of Goldeneye's Pre-credit Sequence at Gaining the Viewers Attention

The film Golden Eye (1995) is a well known film. Martin Campbell, the director uses many techniques such as death defying stunts, villains, attractive Bond girls, exotic locations, and sarcastic humour to create an exciting action film. Even though the audience all know that MI6’s finest agent James Bond will escape near death, save the day and bed the girl, we all return to watch the next mission. Goldeneye fulfils all of the audience’s expectations by exploring all the music, camera angles and shots that Campbell uses I intend to show that Goldeneye is one of the most exciting Bond films available.

At the start

Bond walks into the gun barrel and faces the camera and shoots his gun. It has a white and black back ground until he shoots his gun when it becomes red. This creates the illusion of blood falling down the screen. The barrel shakes from side to side before the whole image becomes one whole searchlight. The searchlight goes into the bottom left hand corner. This makes it look like the light is becoming the plane. You know this because it makes the sound of a plane. The plane then returns into the middle of the screen. Martin Campbell keeps the audience watching by inventing new gadgets, different transport and sound affects. The audience know what to expect because the good guys always win, so they know that some gadget is going to rescue him and that he always gets the girl.

The opening sequence is an important event in a Bond film. Ever since the second James Bond film, there has been an action sequence as an introduction to the main feature. These sequences invariably involve dangerous stunts, which are designed to act as eye candy. Since 1977 when Roger Moore skied off a cliff to

The man holding the gun says “you’re late”. The audience are confused with what is going on but they realise that it is 006 and 007. They go into the weapons base, and Bond sets a bomb to go of in the next six minutes. They go to get out but there is an alarm that goes off so they have to find an exit. The Russian grab the audience’s attention when they swarm the base and try to shoot 006 and 007. The audience’s attention is grabbed once again when the Russians have captured Trevelyan. Bond has to come out in the next ten seconds. The chief kills Trevelyan. The part where the chief counted down ten to one, the audience new whatever Bond done 006 would have died. Martin Campbell played music loud on the parts where the audience’s attention was grabbed mostly, he also adds humour in, and it’s always after Bond kills someone. All different kinds of camera angles are used in this scene, mostly mid shot. Trevelyan uses some kind gadget to open the door with activating the alarm. The audience think that 006 and 007 are going to get captured and killed by the Russians.

Bond shouts out for Trevelyan but he doesn’t answer so he