Film Project Research- Captain America: The First Avenger

The film opens with the Paramount logo, then the Marvel logo, with a sound bridge leading into the scene. The sound is of blowing wind that fades into ominous-sounding, incidental music. The camera has a fade-in into a shot of a blank, grey scene. Two foggy lights come into the grey, which are obviously headlights. As the headlights come closer, one light eventually takes up the whole frame.

A man finally fills in the grey space, standing in what looks like a wasteland of snow. The man is wearing a heavy coat and is yelling over the load wind, which helps with implying that the area is a cold, windy, snow-covered place.

Throughout the men's interaction, a sunrise or set is in the background. his slight tint of coloring to the scene gives a feeling of something changing or coming, where in this scene that thing is Steve out of the ice.

When the large ship that Steve crashed in comes into view with a mid-shot, with the two men still in the foreground, the incidental music shifts key to be more menacing, creating anticipation. the shot then switches to an over-the shoulder high angle shot from on top of the ship, looking down at the two men we previously saw talking. after this, it cuts to a close-up shot of the two men reacting to seeing the ship, then cutting back to the ship and using a track shot to move to show the path of the ship, showing it crashed.

A pan shows us the men as they lower themselves into the ship after cutting a hole in it using some sot of high-tech machinery, showing the audience that this is a modern or near future time period. The coloring of the inside of the ship is blues and greys, which contrast with the red of Steve's shield when it is shown later in the scene. The two men are both holding flashlights that frequently shine into the camera, obstructing the audiences view of the scene, forcing the viewer to see as unclearly as the two men in the darkness and the snow. Once the men see Steve's shield, one understands what it is and one doesn't. The camera zooms into the face of the man who understands, showing his reaction as he forces a call to the Coronal, showing how drastic of a situation finding this is.

The films budget was 140 million USD and the film grossed 370 million USD worldwide. The film was nominated for dozens of awards, with its wins including the Scream Awards award for best superhero, the BMI film and TV Awards award for film music, and the Visual Affects Society Awards award for outstanding compositing in a feature motion picture.