Monday, 9 November 2009

Notes on Film Openings

Essex Boys



Film noir conventions, high contrast lighting, background lighting to creat silhouettes. Voiceover of main character to make audience feel connection to him. Tunnel is a metaphor, light from tunnel making bar shaped lines on the car which ties in to the other character having recently gotten out of prison. Bleak landscape, simple ominous music, femme-fatale.

Lots of natural lighting is used but the sky is quite overcast which makes the scene look gloomy. Lots of close up and medium shots used, although the long shot of the van leaving the moor is very good because it shows the isolation of the area and the characters.

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