The man in the room:
• The dark colours in the room give a sinister feel
• Slow tracking shots in and out.• Focus on the knife and meticulous opening of letters – makes the letter opener seem sinister – the light reflecting off it gives the impression its sharp, dangerous.
o Maybe this relates to the package?
o Adds suspense to the scene.
• The light comes from outside the room making the room dark. This gives the impression something sinister will happen within the room.
o Half his face is hidden in shadows – mystery about the man.
o The package changes his expression from neutral to severely upset, great change in the mood – great for film.
Makes the audience ask why• A photo appears at the end
o Black and white – old
o Why? More mystery
• Quiet parallel music.
• We never see her face, builds suspense
• Always going through dark areas, heading toward the light but never quite there until the end. – Nice idea for the film?
Se7en:
Books:
• They always come back to the book
o Why? Add mystery
o What relevance do the books have? Why words?
• We’re never given more than a few seconds of film – not very useful for our production as we need to show more.
• The angles are always changing, disorientating the audience, confusing them – very powerful effect.
• Underlying crime idea, removing fingerprints with a sinister razor, cutting words out.
• Lots of dark areas never showing much, framing half the shot.
• There is a lot of writing but we can never see what is being written – why? What is being hidden? This would be great if we could incorporate it into our film.
• Distressing music and pictures – distressed suggestions? Would be great in our film to make the audience ask why and what will happen!
Colour:
• Black
o Colours out words, why?
o Colours out pictures, again why?
o More criminal undertones
o Stereotypically an evil colour, can be used in the film easily
• Red
o Blood, anger, passion – mixed with the music and pictures it has a worrying effect on the audience.
Acting:
• Meticulous actions, perfectionist – knows what they are doing, have they done it before? It raises many questions. – could be usable in the film?
Other:
• One shot is split, one on top and one underneath, distracts and disorients the viewer again. – Not really feasible in our film but great if we could put it in, parallel acting maybe?
Jaws:
(blogger cant find the video so i included a link instead)
The Jaw's Clip
Opening Bonfire:
• Slow tracking - adds suspense, it makes the audience want to move the film forward faster. Easily put into our film, would look good with the correct low key lighting.
• Shadowed scene with lots of people, the audience knows something bad will happen but whom too, it makes them ask questions.
• The music changes dramatically from water to the beach –parallel music turns to contrapuntal music for a thriller scene.
• They are safe in the light of the fire, outside in the darkness the shark strikes – would be great to use the lighting to give this subtly impression in our film.
Toward the water:
• The couple head toward the water but the female gets further and further away, lost in the darkness, almost foreboding her future – the opening gap could be used in our film to show the detachment of the character.
• Tracking and panning along with their running
• It links back to the very beginning water scene with the tense music and “shark eye” objective view.
• The camera shots are either close up to shows her fear, or long shots to show her small size in the water making her seem weak.
• Quickening cuts until she disappears, make it more distressing, confusing and thrilling.
• The thriller music comes back and adds suspense
o She goes under many times but always comes back – puts the spectator on the edge of their seat as they ask “will she / wont she survive” This could be good for our film?
Pulp Fiction:
• The very beginning of the opening involves a caption involves a comment explaining the word “pulp” – it sets the tone as quite dark due to the description of the word. – it looks really good and could be used if we had reason to within our film as it could be used to add mystery as to why we have chosen that word and what may happen in the rest of the film.
• The black and white contrast of the words emphasises on the meaning of the words.
• The next part shows a couple mid conversation – instantly raises mystery about who they are and why they are talking.
• Unlike the other examples the characters are in a light environment, only closed by the effect of the chairs keeping them enclosed.
• The Female acts in a strange way, the close-ups on her face show her facial expressions to the audience. – Her hair is slightly wild as well, indicates her personality.
• The table matches her hair, quite messy and out of place.
• The crime setting features in this as well, as with most thrillers – could be integrated with our film?
• There are some more slow tracking shots and Over The Shoulder shots – they feature in all the clips I’ve looked at so far – Must use these in our film to build suspense.
• Long cuts, drag the scene out making the audience anxious.
Goodfellas:
Only watched until 4:00 on the film timer.
In the car:
• The sounds with the text match that of the filmed scene in the car.
• Very little light around the car, and a dark car. – Normally associated with evil and crime, sets the tone of the thriller.
• Suspicious noise, described as a flat – generates more shock when it is a man.
• Very long without cuts, not great for our film.
• The audience asks why these men are together and what are they doing?
Car Stopped:
• They are in darkness again.
• Smart suite – expensive – suggests large crimes?
• Off screen sounds of banging from the boot, it adds mystery to the opening of the boot.
• The bladed props shine to emphasize them from the darkness. They’re also emphasised with the sound.
• The camera tracks into a close up of the protagonist to allow the audience to connect with his facial expression and what he says over the title credits.
Out the window:
• The cars, outfits and accent allow the audience to place the character and area which links to gangster life and was infamous for the criminal underground there.
• He observes the others outside, makes them appear weak to him. – Foreboding the future?
• Another black car with suited men – more crime suggestions.
• Slow cuts, builds suspense and apprehension about what will happen.
Good, be careful not to forget the actual textual analysis - the construction element in how meaning is constructed by editing or camerawork etc. Your anaklysis is often final analysis (how we feel as an audience), as opposed to how meaning is being created by the 4 elements. Where you use them, screen grabs are great - use more of them to illustrate points. you have considered wel how you might incorporate some of these ideas into your own work.
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