We are now going to study the beginning of each of the Genre's openings in detail, looking and codes and convetions, Camera shots, Editing, Mise - en - scene, sound and special effects. The first one we have looked at is Thriller.
Thriller - Opening - Memento
Props - Photograph - insert shots - gives you a picture of the film straight away, Crime scene - clues, Polaroid camera - dated, Gun weapon - Lenny - Armed - Typical thriller, Key for motel, Car windows broke - questions - why is it broken - Hook - unanswered questions - why is he in a motel, End at the start.
Costume - Smart, proffessional, Intelligent - good job - successful, Outfit - Quite business like - more important.
Setting - America! Quiet area of America - Not a very big city (rare for thriller) - Isolated area - dingy, Building shut down - plastic covering - expected.
Titles - Start white fades to blue - Significance - cold colour - cold hearted - empty - no soul - cold - Ice heart - when people die - they go blue - cold.
Black and white shots - editing - past - flashback.
Insert shots of polaroids - significant, Inserts of lots of props, Props - Show the mans condition, Film structure - In his shoes, Bullets, Glasses, Tatoo's, Bags of things he had used.
Establishing shot at the beginning, Music - Slowly builds up - eerie - emotive - melancholy, Digetic sounds - Polariod - guns, Black and white is edited on afterwards, Different to the begginning of seven, designed to set up the confusion seen through the character.
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