This is the opening to Saving Private Ryan. It is a war film and the conventions of this film are: retelling stories of past battles, gun battles, grenades going off and plenty of blood. The technical and symbolic symbols of this opening are low key lighting because they are trying to keep the lighting as natural as possible and theyare trying to create a battle like mood by using the lighting.
The key signifiers in this opening are the water and gun fire. The hard waves smashing on the boat tell the audience that there is a big battle on the way and when the first gunshots are fired, the audience can tell that there will be chaos.
This sequence tells us that there is going to be a lot of fighting with plenty of lives lost, also it may be about brotherhood in the army because soldiers were carrying the wounded to safety. I expect this movie to be a high action army movie with lots of blood included.
I think the demographic for this film are male's aged from 18 - 50 because it is a very intense movie that young and middle aged men would love.
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