Inception

The opening sequence for Inception (2010)

00:06 - Legendary Pictures
00:11 - Syncopy
00:33 - Leonardo Di Caprio (Close up)
00:40 - Children on the beach
01:07 - Chinese Architecture
02:25 - Jump Cut
02:32 - Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Close up)
04:00 - Surreal Activity
04:04 - Jump Cut

The genre is established as a Triller. This is gathered from the non-diagetic music as the Production and Distribution companies appear. The music is deep and mysterious creating suspense. There is then a cut scene to a close up of waves. The sound of the waves is juxtaposed against the non-diagectic music that played beforehand. This suggests we have skipped to a different point of the film. The tempo of the scene is slow paced and consists of long frames making the audience feel calm. The frames are long its gives the audience time to feel the emotion of the scene. The main character appears to be in asia, he is dragged inside. This suggests he is a prison on unfamiliar turf. the main character is disarmed for a gun and a totem. There is a sudden realisation after there is a close up on the totem. Explaining that this totem has importance to the story. At this point its clear that the sequence narrative is not linear.
The first part of the sequence confuses the audience as there is a cut scene where where is it not clear if we have gone back or forward in time; yet agin creating a mysterious feeling. However there is a mysterious asian old man in the first scene, who appears to be replaced by a young asian man; showing that we have gone back not forward.