Opening sequence (The Shawshank redemption)

The Shawshank redemption starts of in a prison ground which is clear to the audience, Red (Morgan Freeman) introduces his character by a voice over, his character is described as a person that can get anything to anyone in the prison ground and with this in mind we as the audience can deduce that he's going to be a key character through the film and maybe even the protaganist, The inmates know when the sirens go off new inmates are coming into the prison, the camera shots used to show that new inmates are coming is a crane shot to show the extent of the prison, As the bus goes through the prison we as the audience only hear the violin play in a type of gloomy and sad way, setting the scene of the shawshank prison, Red introduces another character called Andy Dufresne and tells the audience the key background of him, the camera starts off at a high angle when in the bus and moves to Andy, we can clearly see his facial expressions as "emotionless" there is a great number of diegetic sound used in the opening of shawshank redemption, we can hear the roar of the inmates as they greet the new inmates with fear, and the group of friends with Red betting on the new inmates, as the new inmates walk inside Shawshank redemption it's in the style of a P.O.V to make it look more real for the audience's viewing experience. the colours used are dull, a lot of grey is used to set the darkness and feeling of the prison, and that's exactly what a prison should be.