Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Understanding Thriller openings.

This is three examples of thriller openings: I am identifying the films language (camera, editing, sound and mise en scene).

Memento - visible things in this thriller include guns,blood,bullets,camera and pictures. the camera angles include revers shot, close ups and extreme close ups, the editing switches from black and white to normal. This thriller has diegetic and non diegetic sounds, from music in the background to dialogues between the characters, the main mise en scene is the photograph fading every time it is flipped.


Brick - started off with a dead body and this was a convention, the camera shots included extreme close ups, cloe ups, slow zoom and reverse shots. The editings included dissolve to clear, switching to and from flash backs it also included music which was non-diegetic and a mise en scene which was a dead body and a guy staring at it in disbelieve and shock.



Zodiac - Conventions of this opening was tension with fireworks and the fact that they both got shot. The camera angles were reverse shots, close ups, tracking, pan and point of view shot. editing was continued and captions, no light then a torch, the sounds were non diegetic, diegetic which was a dialogue and cars. The mise en scene was a couple got shot in a car.


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