Favourite Film Induction Task

My favourite film this summer was the latest Star Trek film ‘Star Trek : Beyond’, which meets the crew of the enterprise half way through their five year mission which was given to them at the end of the last film ‘Star Trek : Into Darkness’ where the crew were excited for the mission, however at the start of Beyond we see the crew rather depressed and not up to the usual standard we have seen them in the past. This caught me by surprise because I got to see the main protagonist in a different light, where he is caring and sad instead of being smart and ready to get into action, and this I liked because I got a different perspective of the enterprise crew instead of them when they are fighting an enemy. During the beginning of the film you also get to see a new artificial planet that was created by the films main faction, and I loved this because you get a sense of scale like we got in the first film when we saw Kirk next to one of the federations latest starships, but this time we see one of these starships next to this giant glass sphere the size of a moon. It isn’t soon after this that the tension begins to rise when the director makes us think that the new planet is in danger of attack by suddenly snapping to an unknown ship approaching and using a shaky camera to feel like the protagonists are in danger. It isn’t till later on where we do eventually see the first bit of action, but this time its to a scale non of the previous movies have shown before, and this is the enterprise being fully destroyed, and the director set the tone for this scene perfectly by switching from interior shots of the ship being attacked to wide angle shots of the exterior of the ship being destroyed, this made me feel sympathy for the protagonists as they face an enemy they cannot defeat for the first time. It was not only the camera shots and angles used that had an effect on me but it was also the music used during the destruction, a sad and depressing score that really set the tone of the scene, where the protagonists are defeated. After this we get to see the protagonists fight back even when they are at a disadvantage by outsmarting the enemy and eventually figuring out a way to defeat them. We see this in an action scene where the main protagonist rescues his entire crew on his own, where the camera pans around following the protagonist and also cuts between different moments of the battle. Even later in the film we get to a bit where this new planet is under actual threat and we see that they are helpless against the undefeatable enemy, and so the audience feels sorry for them, but then protagonists come in and manage to save the day which makes the audience feel joy, and want to celebrate. During this big fight the camera follows the new ship around and gives a sense of scale again amazing the audience, and the music used also conveys the sense of victory.