Representation/Target audience: Like Inception, the opening scene is full of males in their 30s to 40s which suggests that the film is aimed at teenagers specifically males because of the male dominated characters. There is also extreme violence within the first 5 minutes of the opening so this obviously doesn't appeal to younger viewers.
Micro analysis of the film opening including mise and scene and camera: Dark Knight Rises starts with a car driving through some tall grass with a high angle which immediately conveys that they are isolated combined with the Hanz Zimmer soundtrack building up, seems like there will be a showdown coming up. The high key lighting contrasted to the darkness of the car suggests that the people inside the car are not particularly nice people. The scene then straight cuts to five men standing outside a plane. One of which is standing infront of everyone else in a dominant position. His costume is different from the other four as he is not wearing military garb. This implies that he is the boss of the soldiers because he knows that he is protected well. The black colour of the plane has connotations of death which foreshadows what is about to occur. It is a long shot which shows that those five men consider themselves to be equal to one another despite one of them displaying a position of power. Another straight cut shows three men sitting at the back of the car with bags over their heads with guns pointed at them. The plain clothing that they wear show that they are powerless against these armed men but if you look at their physique, you can infer that they are physically strong. The bags over their heads hides the facial expressions and makes the audience question who these people are. There is a medium shot of the prisoners which displays that they are all equal in position at this point in time. Although judging from the body position of the middle prisoner, he is more relaxed compared to the other two prisoners which suggests that the middle prisoner has probably some experience of this situation.
Diegetic Sound: There is a sound of the car engine that is played throughout the scene.There is also some speech and the mode of address suggests that they are American.
Non-digetic sound: The non-diegetic soundtrack score of Hanz Zimmer playing in the background seems like its building up to an event.
Titles: Again, the titles are CGI and appear at the start of the film so that they do not interfere with the rest of the film and block any important information.
Restricted/Unrestricted Narration: Restricted Narration.