In the transition from present to past there was a close up on the American flag, there was a France flag which represented the two countries. James Ryan started to walk towards the graveyard of all of the soldiers and while he is doing this there is honourable, slow music in the background. He reaches a grave and kneels down to that grave and he cries the sound made there was a sobbing sound. There is an extreme close up (so you know what he's seeing in his head) of his face and slowly the music in the background changes from honourable music to the beach rushing in.The scene then changes and there were a lot of people being killed.
While the Americans' were on the boat captain miller takes a drink from his bottle and as he drops his hand it starts to shake because he was really nervous. The camera movement would be panning because john looks around at the other soldiers face. As soon as the ramp opens the instant chaos begins before they have a chance of doing anything. Those that had a chance of staying alive at that point had to jump out of the boat into the water. The camera also went into the water and showed most of the people in the water getting shot or drowning in the water.From the Americans perspective changes to the Germans perspective to let the audience know that they are bigger than the Americans.
The Americans have now ran onto the beach and hidden behind the hedgehogs while there was a close up of john miller taking of his helmet and the blood drained from the dead peoples body was mixed with the water and as soon as he puts his helmet on the water got into his helmet and he chucked it over his head this was a sign that he was draining himself in blood and that he doesn't care.In the film there was a change in colour it changes from a normal picture to a slow desaturated colour. The sound effects went dim this time because there was a loud bomb that went of next to john and he went deaf for a little while and after that sound affect that was going on was a deep sound of rushing air. Mike Horvath makes a comment in the film he says" it's like a goddamn firing squad ". the effect of this was to make the audience aware of acute danger.
