the godfather opening scene

The scene begins with the sound of the a voice then a close up on a gentlemans's face, who is explaining whats happened in the resent past. This straight away makes the audience feel sorry for him as hes talking about his daughter being beaten my two men. The more the scene goes on he camera closely zooms out wards, which allows the audience to see the clothes he is wearing. He is wear a suit this suggest that he has money and is high up in the ranks or its an important meeting and wnats to look his best its not really clear yet. As the camera keeps zooming out we get the start sight of who he is talking to, which is Don Vito Corleone. From this early scene it suggest that Don Vito Corleone is very high in the ranks and has alot of money as its his house and dressed very smartly in a suit,but the audience only sees this when he stands up to let the gentleman out the room as we only see his back till the end of the scence as he is in shadow and at a large desk which also suggest he is very powerfull. The gentleman has came to tell him about what has happened with his daughter and wants Don Vito Corleone to help him.