Narrative Structure:
- See the wallet began stolen
- Later see the same wallet being taken out of a bag, someone else has it
- See an i.d of a man who we see in the next scene so it all links together
- We also see a picture of his daughter in the wallet so we realise she means a lot to him
- Concealment, partial-vision- takes wallet
- Q&A model, we don't know whats in the crate
- Music is uneasy, builds up alot of tension, loud, ticking beat, deep and builds suspense
- Over the top of the music we can hear a plane taking off
- Music builds up expecting climax but it cuts off
- Music again builds up to a climax by building up pace
- Music emphasises how hectic the scene is
- Black background with white text getting smaller- movement
- Red eye written in red, black background, capitals, bigger font than titles: red signifies blood, danger and anger
- Titles still taking place when the film starts, smaller, less important usually
- Zooms in before wallet is taken which changes the focus of the shot
- Establishing shot of building
- Two settings, camera is cross cutting to each place which enhances how hectic they are in the film
- See pictures straight away of a young girl, link this to the main character, looks happy, intelligent and sporty
- Looks like shes important to the persons who house it is
- Rain
- Everyone is rushed
Silence of the lambs
Narrative Structure:
- We know shes training when we see someone else with an FBI hat on. We know its the main character
- The girl comes from the very back of the screen and moves on to the front to show shes the main character
- When we hear the police officer we know hes not alone, as when the girl is running the camera could be a view from someone
- running to show urgency
- Behavioural science service- we know what field she works in
- Male domination environment
- Opening in a forest gives nothing away but by the music being a heart beat we know its a thriller
- The girl is vulnerable because the only one in a big woods
- Gives us more mystery as to what shes running from, but then we see why she's running
- Gives us a clue when we see a net which she climbs over so we know its a obstacle course
- The FBI man introduces her, also he's not a threat because she turns to speak to him
- Shes small high lighted shes blue and the mean are red, she more timid they are tougher colour red.
- Contrast between genders
- Camera behind her, following her as if its from her point of view
- Camera moving down from the sky, pan down
- Rope in the middle of the screen, then trees on the left and right making us look in the middle as if its a tunnel (FRAMING)
- Long shot of her from behind-running towards mist
- Camera behind her so its as if someone is chasing her
- Zoom in to a window to show that where she's going
- Slow zoom to see facial expression to show she has spotted something baculia
- Wearing a uniform this shows there is importance
- The trees telling us its in a forest- on it own we can tell autumn because the trees are bare
- Shes looking for something which also makes us thinks shes lost also shows her profile
- People training in the background
- High-five saying girls stick together- well known
- Shes in a room with guns seems more masculine
- Non-diagteic sound gives mystery
- Bird flying away to try and make us jump (Diagetic)
- Shes tried so we think shes running away
- Guns and a buzzing noise which is associated with danger
- The cameras to the side of her looks as if she is running faster, the music lifts up also which makes the suspense build up
- When we see the forest we can see shes not coming out of the forest as we cant see outside of it, shes deeper in the forest
- We see a sign 'hurt, agony, pain, love-it' could be related to the killer
- We know there still in the woods
- Opening text gives us establishing shot of the office
- Shes looking to the left of the camera, music building suspense and also shes looking around.
Narrative Structure:
- Establishing shot of the city
- First character we see is a boy riding a motorbike
- Only shows him for the first one and a half minutes, making us think what is his iportance in the film?
- Tension is built when there is a hand on the door but we dont know who it is
- Diagetic sound of the motorbike
- Diagetic sound of a man getting hit by a baseball hat
- Music of his ipod goes from diagetic to non-diagetic, the song is "It's going to be a lovely day."
- Country side
- A chinese man wears white to show he is the leader of the group
- The rest of the gang wear black, could signify that they do the 'dirty work'
- Up close of the boy on the motorbike, but also shows the surrounding of the country side around it
- Shot reverse shot of the action (fighting) to the boy hiding in the bushes
Fast and Furious
Narrative Structure:
- All the cars have black and green showing they all relate to each other
- Transform City
- First shot was of cars
- 3 cars racing shooting lorry
- Camera focuses on Cafe where another guy is introduced into the film called Brian
- Company transporting name is Rodgers
- Brian races on track
- Title was using reflectors
- Moved fast like the name
- Screeching of cars (Diagetic Sound)
- To portray the characters they used gangster music
- Diagetic sound- fast and rocky music which relates to the action, when their fighting 'watch your back'
- Raping builds tension
- Suspense is built from the start
- Diagetic sound of the cars roaring
- Ordinary clothes
- Person in red, shows he angered
- Brian is in black to show he is relaxed
- Brian is introduced by nearly going of a cliff
- We ask questions of what are in the boxes? Who are they?
- There is a car following the rogers van showing importance
- Muscly, bald, tall guy threatens Brian to show that it is his cafe
- When getting out of car, shows the peoples shoes before faces building up tension of who they are
- They point at Brian's car meaning they may be enemies
- We know he is working for Harry as he says "Chill out man, he's selling boxes for Harry."
- A song is played whilst they are brawling which repeatedly says "Watcha back" and it also plays whilst a guy in red top walks up to the cafe
- Leader of the group splits up the fight, we know he is the leader as his voice has more significance, power
- Threatens Brian with his wallet
- City suddenly changes from night to day
- Title enters quickly
Seven
Narrative Structure:
- We relate the crime scene to him as we saw him getting ready (putting his tie on)
- Continuously raining which creates a dull image
- establishing shot of the city to show the setting
- Might relate to heroic romance as inspector mills and Somerset is ordinary
- Suggests hes alone as their is a single bed
- The first section of the film shows inspector mills with his wife which continues showing him as a ordinary man
- When looking at the main character in his flat makes it seem they are looking into his life, this is because we can see framing of the room
- Over the shoulder into the mirror, camera moves up to see his face. we know hes dressing up for something
- Framed of the man dead, not important compared to whats happened (PE O/TILT camera)
- Looking up to detectives - shows importance
- Opening scene- shows the murderer getting ready for his murderers, we see close up so we don't understand whats going on
- Lighting of flat is dim and plain white which makes us presume hes a normal guy.
- Everything in his house is layed out well and arranged as his knife and pens are layed out and relates to other things throughout (for-shadowing)
- Most of the light is dull and dark but builds
- As the person who isn't important is know walking away, and the other important person comes onto the shoot
- We only find out mills and somersets name
- Smart and simple clothing
- We know its in New York- people pushing past to get by
- When Somerset is in this room the door takes up a third of the room
- Diagetic sound- city= cars and loud noise
- Constant sound of the city
- Sirens= diagetic
- Rain being a re-accruing of the city life
- Tick-tock of an instrument to block out city= or something he uses to calm down- later on he smashes it to show break calm
- Song on opening track says "Closer to God" which related us to religion
- Cut to black= signifies the end of a sequence
- Font looks scrapped makes the scene messy
- Things over layed
- Images devolving
- MONDAY comes up in the same font as the opening sequence- the diary of the week represents sections
- The opening scene is for shadowing of the murders shows him cutting of the skin on his fingers which we see later on in the film
- Dissolves images together
- Images followed by black to split things up
- Low key lighting
- Scratching on surface to show its old fashioned
- Beat going quicker to build suspense
- Red symbolises blood
Jaws
Narrative Structure:
- After an opening with suspense we go to a group of people who are calm and oblivious to the danger.
- Camp right next to the sea to connect the two
- Non-diagetic sound, image, text all builds suspense together
- The title of the film doesn't give much away but we still have an idea of what it's about
- Shows care free she is
- Builds suspense from the opening tune to the bit where the lady gets dragged under
- As soon as she jumps in the water we think 'oh no' because we know whats going to happen
- The guy is no help as he's just sat on the beach
- The shark has spotted her its a worms eye view (camera looking up) to show she's carefree and the shark is about to attack
- The boy on the beach cant hear her which shows she's to far away to be heard, bell still ringing when shes gone under
- The shark is still out there to attack again
- Shot from under the water so we can see what the shark sees
- Flick from danger to the guy on the beach to show a contrast
- At the start with the heart beat noise the camera angle is from the sharks point of view
- Camera pan to the right at the bonfire
- We see the the beach and the sea so we assume they are connected
- Because the boy is big in the camera shows he has some significance
- Shot reverse shot between the boy and the girl
- Dark light which causes suspense
- Setting dark but candle lit
- Concealment and protratcion
- Blue and green represent the cold and danger
- As Carissa runs she runs in the dark which shows she's vulnerable, also she shows the boy running to so we know he's vulnerable too and both stripping away their protection
- Rigid fences to show shark teeth
- Sound which causes suspense at the start; gets faster and louder which makes us believes theirs danger in the sea
- Non-diagetic sound of the Jaws which creates suspense
- Opening has a submarine noise/water/fish raider
- Opening noise mimics increasing raising heartbeat
- Builds up which makes us think he's going to attack- for shadowing
- We associate the tense noise to the shark
- Bell in the sea to tell everyone Theresa danger but it can't be heard
- Cuts from campfire scene to the water scene which creates contrast between the two
- After the building up we aspect something to happen which it doesn't, it goes to action which makes us believe something is going to happen
- We know the ocean is so big because in a long shot she is small on the screen to show its a big sea
Title fades out:
- Capital letters
- In your face
- Ordinary text
- Title still showing as film starts
- Font on a light or dark background which they stand out on both.
- The text has a black outline
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