In the late 1960s and 1970s, fear grips the city of San Francisco as a serial killer called Zodiac stalks its residents. Investigators (Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards) and reporters (Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr.) become obsessed with learning the killer's identity and bringing him to justice. Meanwhile, Zodiac claims victim after victim and taunts the authorities with cryptic messages, cyphers and menacing phone calls.In this opening scene you are introduced to Jake Gyllenhaal's character who is a reporter, you are introduced to his lifestyle and find out that he has a son and most likely is divorced due to the fact that he is doing the school run on his own. The titles in this opening scene are suitable because it looks like the font of a typewriter which would have been used by reporters and writers at the time and before the events that are being looked at in this movie.
There are various editing techniques the main one being match on action for example when the son running into school in minute 1:46 and then it cuts to him walking back to the car.There are also jump cuts between what he's doing and the mail being delivered. An example of this is minute 2:14 when the van is pulling up outside a building.
This aim of this task was to help us strengthen our skills at analysing opening scenes
