Mise-En-Scene: We can see costumes that give ideas of the era the story is set in by the costumes the characters wear and the locations they're in, the filmmakers also use iconic images from the last century and alter them slightly to allow the audipresent.
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ence to understand that this story is now set in an alternate world. Examples of this are the walking of the moon with the main character Doctor Manhattan being on the moon at the same time, the protestors being shot in the 60's after placing a daisy in the rifle of a gun, JFK shaking the hands of the character "Doctor Manhattan", the sailor kissing the women at the conclusion of WWII is altered to it being a women and the assassination of JFK is altered to having the character of "The Comedian"
These short 10 second or less scenes have costumes that replicate the clothing and locations of the iconic image to allow the audience to denote that this is an altered reality while being based still very similar of the real world universe.
Music, Sound And Dialogue:
The soundtrack used for the scene employs a well known song by a well known music artist- "The Times They Are A Changing"- Bob Dylan. The songs lyrics speak of "the times are a changing", these lyrics foreshadow to story elements of the world changing while also implementing irony that the change is to an already existing that the characters of th film are unaware of. The music allows the audience to connote that the world is changing, this is enhanced with the images of Doctor Manhatten being able to walk on the moon and lesbien relationships being mainstream much earlier then they actually were. The sequence largely lacks sound effects other than the foley sound effects of the camera flashes, cheers,gasps and gunfire. These sound effects are used strategically in shots of the opening when something of importance has happened e.g the assassination of JFK.This allows the audience to remain interested and get the audiences attention when they may begin to lose focus. Dialogue is not heard often and is heard only to foreshadow to story elements for example when the character "Silk Spectre" screams at her husband "I WAS A HERO GODDAMIT!", because the audience has no idea how she was a hero or why they're arguing it keeps them interested and wanting to know more about the reason this argument may have started and what happened between the two characters after that scene.
Camera & Editing: The entire sequence is a large montage which allows the audience to get a large amount of information in one small sequence. The montage has lots of fades to black as transitions because it allows the audience to connote a passing of time, the passing of time tends to be linked with the timing of the fade- the longer the fade= the greater passing of time.The montage has extensive slow-motion to emphasise the scene, this gives the audience the ability to better analyse the shot and see things that would be impossible to see if played in real time. In addition to the slow motion there are also pans and zooms to emphasise things in the shot, for example on the moon the camera zooms into the visor of the astronaut to reveal Doctor Manhatten , there is also a tracking shot when the two lesbiens kiss at the end of WWII which then pans over to a photographer, this gives the shot an emersive feeling and makes that particular part of the sequence stand out as important because the audience were engaed as if they were there.
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