SKYFALL Trailer - Textual Analysis

Skyfall - Official Teaser Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24mTIE4D9JM&feature=relmfu

The sequence opens with a fade from black into a scene of James Bond standing on top of a building, the camera is behind him and we can see all of the sights he is looking at. He is slightly to the left of the frame and it is a medium-long shot. Where he is facing, we can see Big Ben and various other monuments along with a large array of Union Jacks, this helps give a very patriotic feel to James Bond, which has always been a convention throughout the previous James Bond movies. He is dressed smartly in what looks like a black fitted coat, this makes him look fairly classy. The camera tilts slightly down to show his feet, so we can establish he is standing very close to the edge. The sense of patriotism is maintained by the soundtrack, as the first thing we hear is someone say "Country?" and James say "England".
 We then fade to black and then fade into the next shot of a man running, it is presumably James but it is hard to tell due to the extreme long shot. The subject is in the background and is slightly to the right of the frame making them look fairly unimportant. The dialogue within the soundtrack shows us the same two voices with the man saying "gun" and James saying "shot".
 Yet again another fade is used, this time we see James as a silhouette in a doorway, though he is not centre frame, he is clearly the focus of the shot as the doorway is where all the light is coming from and the fact he is standing in the doorway means that he is blocking a large amount of the light that is entering the room.
 We fade to a shot of a shooting range where the target looks like a person, as the soundtrack says "murder". We then cut to a shot of James and the man 'interrogating' him and realise that the dialogue before this shot was not non-diegetic but instead a sound bridge from this shot and James says "employment", this signifies that he sees killing as a neccesary part of his job. Though technically there are 4 people in the shot, the two in the foreground are just silhouettes and have their backs facing the camera which makes this almost an over the shoulder two shot of James and the interrogator.
 The camera moves to the other side of the two characters, this time it is a two shot and is a medium shot. We can see that James is wearing what looks to be a prisoner's clothes where as the interrogator is wearing a nice suit with an identity card attached to his left jacket pocket, making him seem very official. We can no longer see through the window in the room where the camera was previously as it is one way glass, people can see in but not out. This makes it seem like more of an interrogation as they do not know who is watching from outside. The walls are quite grotty and not very nice which makes it like a prison. James is sitting upright in his chair with perfect posture and the interrogator is slouching which makes it seem like James is taking this  more seriously than he is.
 As the interrogator mentions "Skyfall", we cut to a close up of James' face to show his reaction, then immediately cut away to a shot of a man with a gun standing in a room which looks like it has been ransacked with a man sitting dead (possibly sleeping/ unconscious) in a chair, for just a split second and then we cut back to James' reaction. This shows that "Skyfall" provokes memories, likely bad due to the nature of the memory.
 We cut to a three shot of the people looking into the interrogation room, we have the one in the background and the one in the foreground both slightly out of focus with the one in the centre in focus, bringing more attention to him. However as he looks towards the woman in the foreground, we get a pull focus shot putting her in focus and him out of focus.
 We cut again to a close up of the interrogator repeating himself "Skyfall" and then James confidently saying "Done". We cut back to the original shot we started with when we were first shown this room, as James gets up and walks away.
 We get a high angle shot of a city at night with all of the bright lights on the buildings, then we cut to a woman standing in the window of her hotel/apartment room which suggests a possible love interest for Bond.
 The next shot is a panning shot of Bond walking into a room and firing two shots from his gun, these two shots fit perfectly with the music, connoting that James is in control of the soundtrack. The camera is at a slight low angle in order to show his power and also we notice that he is wearing a very smart black suit to show that he always likes to look classy.
 We have a shot of coffins with Union Jacks draped upon them. The next shot shows James on a boat in China, he is centre frame, with the camera low angle and he is still dressed very smartly with a bow tie and a handkerchief sticking out of his jacket pocket.
 We see a shot of James running down a road in London which has a lot of traffic along with a large number of police vehicles. He is running the opposite way from where the police vehicles are headed which seems to show he is running away from something that his happened, he has a concerned look on his face. Despite running, he still looks very smart with his suit.
 We get a shot at 1.01 of James walking down a dark corridor and as he comes closer to the camera, the small amount of light shining through settles upon his eyes leaving the rest of his face in darkness. This is an interesting shot as it makes him look like quite a dark character which has not really been shown before.
 We then see a silhouette walking away from a burning building, we cannot tell who this is however it does not look like James and is more likely to be the villain of the movie.
 The trailer ends with James Bond saying "there's a man coming to kill us, we're gonna kill him first" and then a rapid montage of action shots and then the iconic 007 logo with the 7 looking like a gun.