Sunday, 31 January 2010

Detailed Analysis of Thriller clip watched in class - Tyrone Gaskin

In our recent lesson we we shown four different sample thriller film openings to help us constuct our openning.
We were shown:

-The Shining
-Marathon Man
-Arlington Road
-Dead Calm
-Seven

But the thriller film openning I've decided to analyse is Dead Calm because when I saw it in class it had a suspenseful openning because of the moving typography which made me wnt to watch more.

http://paisley.presys.com/graphics/deadcalm.gif

Openning can be scene:
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_ca00XMjIxMTQyNDA=.html

In the openning there is good use of high angle shots of the the officers comming off the train while at the same time diegetic sound of the train breaking and peoples footsteps is used effectively to show a tense scene build up and also the the realism at the station. There is slow paced editing used, and mise en scene of the officers uniforms are also shown. Furthermore the typography in the opening is very eye catching with big red fonts which cross over from left to right.

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