Code break analysis

The angle of the camera is always from the side of the room, and there are a lot of close up shots, it shows the facial expression of simon or the prisinor. the lighting is perfect because it is a prison so it can't be too bright but at the same time it can't be too dark cause if it was too dark you won't be able to see the facial expression of the actors. acting wise i would say it wasn't so perfect, the criminals weren't serious enough to make me believe that it was in a terrible situation but at the same time simon was good with the role he was playing. The location was good it looked pretty real and cause the lighting was pretty dark so even tho there were some defacts, you can't really see it cause of the lighting. The Costume didn't really show in this thriller because the light was dark. After all I would say this is a good thriller because it got me excited as well as my heart beat went faster, isn't this what you want from a thriller ?

Kill Bill

When the bride is buried, you develop specific sympathies towards the main character. Quentin Tarantino, the director, uses the different techniques of the scenes to covey different emotions, one of which being through the m.e.s. The m.e.s is everything crucial and important about each scene.

In the scene the bride is buried, Quentin Tarantino uses sound to develop your feelings towards the characters. Before the bride is buried, the music is calm, depressing and slow. The effect the writer brings towards the audience is the feeling of sadness, as you cannot do anything about this terrible event. When the bride is finally buried the music halts, and the sounds of scrapes and screams comes in. This is where Quentin Tarantino achieves to make “fear” the theme of the scene. After the scene of the bride being concealed in the coffin, she starts to stumble out, punching her way through the top cover of the coffin, making it sound that with every punch, the bride is closer to escape. Then, the coffin busts open, and the sound, is deliberately emphasized to focus on the escape. This is when the bride escapes from beneath the ground, and there is a trumpet playing, to convey happiness and peace, which ends when the hand vanishes.

Another crucial component in the burial scene are the costumes. Before the bride is put in the coffin, the man whom places her inside, the use of techniques in camera position, and the way the man is displayed, gives us a powerful, as well as making us feel powerless, when we see the cowboy. There is absence of light, which creates an claustrophobic fear, and makes us think that the bride will die. The close- up view of the bride with the torch shows the futility of what she is conspiring her escape, trying to keep her cool. This causes us to feel sympathy towards the bride. But in the next scene everything is different and the audience just knows that she will escape. The bride then gets out, with a bleeding hand, develop a sense of pain, and of she has to go through. We feel that she is in a great deal of pain, and we compare ourselves with her, wishing we were even close as not only physically, but also mentally strong as her. Lastly, this scene drops the weight from our hearts when the bride at last climbs through the soil. The graveyard where she was buried is deserted. She is covered in dirt, which shows us what she had to go through in order to escape the coffin to her surface, again, making us sympathize with the bride.

The lights focus the coffin, when it is nailed shut, to show importance and contrast to this event. This coveys the tone and theme of fear to the audience, because we are certain that the bride will die. The first time she turns on the lights, the lights are dimmer, but the afterwards they are bright. After the flashback, the light from the flashlight is much brighter in the second scene. During the bride’s escape, the lighting on her face shows how determined she is, making us feel proud and feel positive feelings towards her. It is still a late hour, which shows that the bride has broken out of the darkness and emerged victoriously into the light.

Overall, the burial scene in Kill Bill had 3 main factors in order to persuade the audience to think of the bride in a sympathetically way. The techniques Quentin Tarantino uses to achieve this are sound, specific camera angles and lighting. These three combined makes us sympathize with the bride, and think of her more highly than we did before.

The conversation poster

In the poster for the conversation, the main character is in the top section which makes him the main character. the whole poster is mainly grey which signifies moral ambiguity this makes it seem as though the main character is going to do something shady. he is looking through a window which puts a white streak on him which means he could be searching of redemption. the title is in red and black which shows that the titular conversation will involve death and the couple. the couple are in a camera sight which shows that they are being spied on and means that the man at the top is a spy of some sort or trying to stop a spy. the cityscape of San Fransico shows the grey which has further implications on moral ambiguity.

Hanna

In the sequence of Hanna we hear a really aggressive and dark electronic music as the background music but at the same time it doesn't make you feel that she's evil, instead you feel really pumped and excited about the whole movie. The non- diagetic music started after they opened the door, it took a long time for the door to get opened, during the time it feels like the build up for background music and in a way it gives you this feel that hanna's killing game is about to start. during the escape, the on and off light kind of matches to the non-diagetic background music and when the tempo of the song went higher nd higher as she almost succeeded the escape. The music stopped when she got away with the people that were chasing her but it started again after she started to run again. 

Filming rules

In  filmmaking  the 180-degree rule is the basic guideline regarding the on-screen orientation that is allowed to the audience between a character and another character or object within a scene. An imaginary line called the axis ,which is a semi circle, connects the characters and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene, the first character will always be frame right of the second character, who is then always frame left of the first.

you are allowed to cross the axis but to do this you must show the movement of the camera in order to not disorientate the viewers. other techniques we use to shoot  and maintain the camera are bubbling, white balance, exposure , framing,  and the rule of thirds. bubbling is when you adjust the the camera to get a bubble into the centre circle. white balance which is the process of removing all unrealistic colour casts so that objects which appears white in person are rendered white in your photo. exposure is when you regulate how much light gets into any shot. framing is a method used to draw the attention of the viewer to a certain aspect of the shot this can be achieved by tricks such as drawing the eye or focusing on a certain part of the body or area. finally the rule of thirds is when the shot is split up into 9 squares and the importance of an aspect is judged by what square an object or person are placed in. 

Children Of Men

Children Of Men is morally ambiguous  the cracks of the window seem to signify a broken society around him the lighting is brighter  where the man is standing this makes it implied that he is the hero.  the mans Expression looks brave. Unshaven and ragged ;   the shattered glass jutting from the pane implies that the threat of death is there. Metallic colours symbolise cold environment, eyes look like bright and determined. the Glass broken where the man is standing signifies doing something to change situation and overcoming obstacles.  children of men in white symbolise innocence hope and new life. 2027 grounded in reality

The Shining

From the moment you first set eyes on this poster you can tell two things, first that its a horror, second that it involves a battle of wits and strength. First how can you tell its a horror well the crazy man sticking his head through the door is a start, and the scared woman with absolute fear in her eyes  on the right. from the way we read the poster we can see that the man ins in the main square of focus. as it makes him stand out to be the killer, and there is a close-up of his face closeups characterize people better within the shot. The wording of the poster is simple and stands out by using white on black, and black on white which gives greater emphasis on contrast. the man in the poster is obvious saying something  to the woman which shows the hierarchy in the situation because the woman is forced to react and it is a negative reaction. due to the editing it seems that he is looking at her but the door is in the way. She is staring at the axeman on the left and can see the woman on right in the background this makes the man is more dominant over the woman and shows the woman to be weak and hiding away from the killer.