Terminator 2 - Opening Sequence

• Titles appear on screen, producers, associates. Text is white and in the middle of the screen.
• Establishing shot of busy motorway/highway.
• close up of people walking amoungst traffic camera goes out of focus as they walk past, which creates realism.
• A non-diagetic, tense music is played over the top.
• Cuts to a mid shot of a girl on a swing, camera tracks her as she moves side to side.
• Diagetic sound of childs laughter over the top which is quite unsettling.
• Directors name appears on screen in the middle
• Build up of sound to a crescendo.
• The camera then goes into slow motion, where the picture saturates into a white screen, as the nuclear bomb hits.
• Cuts to a close up of a burnt out car with skeleton passengers, very little sound, diagetic sound of the wind can be heard to emphasise liveless area.
• Main colour on screen has gone from white to blue.
• The camera movement tracks sideways over the car to show the whole motorway, covered with burnt out cars and skeletons.
• Film has moved on to the future - Date appears on screen 2029.
• Slowly fades to an abandoned playground, track round to the swing in which the young girl was on in the first couple of scenes.
• Non-diagetic voice over.
• Camera tracks round to a single skull, where it stops. The skull is the suddenly crushed my the foot of a robot. Diagetic sound of a metal foot crushing a skull.
• Camera pans upwards to the robot shooting his weapon.
• Sound levels increase dramatically, diagetic sound of explosions and futuristic weapons being fired.
• Flames in the background, with human soldiers running around looking for cover. Long Camera shot.
• Non-diagetic droning sound.
• Diagetic sound of soldier screaming as he is shot.
• Mixes voice over with music.
• Cuts to a close up of a mans face, which then fades into fire.
• The film name then appears over the flames.
• Slowly moving foreward with actors names appearing above and below it.