BDM 105 Scene Review

BDM 105 Scene Review

The Opening Scene of the series Kill la Kill is a rather unique scene that sets the premise, theme and mood of the anime and gets you ready for more action and amazing animation to come.

What is a scene?

According to an excerpt from the book, "the Book Architecture Method", a scene as two main definitions; a scene is where something happens and, a scene is where something changes. An opening scene sets up the audience's feeling for the following scenes and should provide enough explanation as for an audience member to understand the world, or atleast enough that they arn't completely lost in the story and or world.[1]

1. HORWITZ, S. (2013). Blueprint your bestseller. Retrieved February 22, 2014, from http://www.bookarchitecture.com/media/pdf-book-architecture-method-excerpt.pdf

In the opening scene of Kill la Kill, we're introduced to the typical school-room setting, which subtly provides a few things. We arn't specifcally shown anything apart from a 'boring' school teacher, a hoard of anonymous squished in students in a utilitarian room, and one girl sleeping in the corner.

Humorously, and even though you can see in her surroundings no one is really concentrating on the lesson, she's in a deep sleep sleep whilst sitting. 

Suddenly the door is dented against, and everyone gasps.

With excellence in showing how fast the door moves, by the speed people react to it, and the weight in the folly and the over the top kick, the intense over the top awesomeness of this anime has just revealed itself ontop of it's top quality animation quality. 

And so the Disciplinary Committee Chair has his over the top, but classic introduction and a huge stamp denoting the halfhearted 'official' style of their introduction in jest. Immediately you know this school is ran by a militaristic style management and even the teachers are afraid of them.

Though all the mess, that one character of which you don't even yet know the name of, still asleep after all the commotion, attaching curiosity to her role but also information of her care-free almost ignorance is bliss persona.

The fugitive, a thief of which we learn the powerful goku suit (the source of their supernatural abilities), is caught out, and runs.

But is, ofcourse, found out, and the theif pays the price.

The full opening scenes of this Anime Kill la Kill is crazy action fulled with a high level of stylised animation immersing you in a real feeling of movement and emotions of the huge and imposing disciplinary chair teaching the would be thief his lesson as an example to all at the school.

Techniques

This anime uses a few of the typical opening scenes, including:

• Regular Day (students in a class room)
• Dramatic Irony (the thief doesn't realise what he's getting in to, and his reaction results in the opening scene and premise of the series, revealing to us the lore of this world)
• Foreshadowing / True Beginning (at the end of the scene it reveals the main character of the story, Ryuko Matoi, showing she just arrived in town with a clear bad ass attitude)

Clip of the Opening Scene

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