Essay on similar film genre

My media essay on the first 2 minutes is on a film called “Rocky”.

During the first few seconds of the opening sequence, there is two adverts one being Metro Goldwyn Mayer and United Artists (an MGM company), the main music of the film being played by trumpets, in an old fashioned way (this is due to the film released), as well as the title of the film slowly going across the screen portraying “ROCKY”. This lasts for a full 7 seconds then after the last letter moves across there is a date of “November 25th 1975 Philadelphia. After it fades into film there is a close up of a picture of Jesus, this connotes to the audience that whoever owns this back street boxing ring is religious. Immediately after the camera zooms out of the picture, you can hear the non-diegetic people screaming jeers and cheers, this signifies that something must be happening such as a fight or something that has competition.
When the camera zooms out into an master shot three people are introduced one being an two being unknown boxers and a referee. There is fast paced fighting between the two boxers in a somewhat dim, scrummy venue that seems to be an “back room fight”. This is portrayed by the MES of the venue and the fact the referee isn’t wearing standard refereeing clothes suggests otherwise. Also the audience seem to throw objects onto the ring showing boredom as the fight isn’t as exciting as they thought it would be. The character with light brown hair is portrayed as a dirty boxer, one who is not really welcome this is shown when rocky is blocking him off, and as a result gets head butted by this unknown boxer which in boxing terms is a foul. As for the boxer with black semi long hair is positioned to be loved by the crowd, there for connoting he is a good person to the audience.
The camera angles used are mostly long takes during the fighting, but when the bell goes, there is a two shot of the good boxer with his trainer cleaning his face and giving tips, as well with a cut to another individual, portrayed as a friend of the boxer’s, motivating him to win or do better than what he is doing. During the fight, once the move half way across the ring, it cuts past the 180 degree rule, this happens quite a bit when the tempo decides to build up. When the camera is taking long takes, it is always placed in the crowd, making the audience watching the film feel they are part of the crowd as you can always see the ropes.
The opening sequence consists of two boxers fighting in a scummy ring. While halfway in to the two minutes the bell rings and rocky and his training trade words with each other as well as one of rocky’s friends.