Evaluation Of Our Two Minute Sequence "Wanted"

During the course, I have created a 2 minute opening sequence as my project in a group. The group included Aimee Hilton, Jurguen Munch, Steven Culshaw and myself. Each of us contributed equally and uniquely, we all researched the different stereotypes for specific genre’s including horror, gangster, comedy and thriller. We viewed the specific representations of the people in each genre and applied them to our chosen genre which was a gangster/revenge type film. We found that in gangster films, the main characters are usually young and have a specific way of talking and accent, such as the “hard-man” London accent, which we found to be used in a lot of British gangster movies such as “Kidulthood” and “Fallout”.

Once we had identified the genre that we wanted, we assigned ourselves different codes and conventions to research including editing, representations of age, stereotypes, settings, genre, props and target audience. By using the internet and films in general we were able to analyse the codes and conventions of our genre and apply them to the project we were making.
We all played roles in filming the sequence and we equally distributed the filming, directing and editing in the group. Jurguen Munch was our actor for the main character as well as being involved in some filming and editing as we see some handheld shots in our sequence. The “thugs” in our sequence were friends of ours who took part in helping to make our sequence complete.
Our film is based on the gangster genre of British teenagers and the gangsters of today. In the majority of gangster films the gangster can be portrayed as ruthless, ill mannered and abusive rather like a bully, however, in other films they can be portrayed as kind and helpful but have a hidden passion for crime. Either way gangsters in films are stereotyped as criminals or thuggish, and usually considered to be young teenagers. We have applied this to our sequence where our main character is a teenager and is constantly in violent actions, he also has a thuggish “strut” as he walks and fulfils the outfit that gangsters wear which is usually baggy or stylish clothing, hoodies or anything to make themselves look more dominant and bigger to their opposition, therefore, trying to ensure that no one “messes” with them. If we did not apply this stereotypical role to the main character he would not fit the genre, for example if he wore a tutu or a superhero outfit the genre would change entirely, even normal clothes would change the genre, once the audience see’s hooded figures who have a swagger when they walk they instantly realise that they shouldn’t mess with this person because he is a thug and is threatening.
When doing something new to a genre you give it a more meaningful and exciting world, so the audience will be more interested and see a new face to the genre, therefore, creating a new genre but similar. This is how new genre’s are created or even promotes the genre even better making people want to watch it.

By using codes and conventions of typical gangster genres, our production proved successful in portraying the typical gangster stereotype. The clothing type we used was similar to a stereotypical gangster such as a “hoody” or hooded jumper with the hood up to make them look mysterious and threatening because you can’t see there face properly and you don’t know what they will do next; baggy trousers, in our production we see two different gangsters but with similar clothing on, although one may be brighter than the other, this sticks to the stereotype of the gangster. A “hard mans strut” helps to make him look more dominant and hard as he slowly walks past. He is constantly in fights on his journey to the gym to work out, gangsters are often in fights, however, guns and lethal weapons are used in these fights but often a fist fight is experienced when two clans/rivals come into contact because one has “invaded” the other clans area, therefore, the “home” clan will try to get the outsider out of the area with all they have.
Although there is not speech in our production, by watching the actors’ mouths you can sometimes tell what they are saying. Gangsters often have a noticeable accent which sounds over exaggerate and like they are a hard man/woman and usually use a swear word or say something insulting in there sentence every 1-5 sentences. When watching closely in the first fight scene you can see the main character move his lips in a swearing motion like he’s saying the F you word. This portrays what a gangster’s attitude is like especially when attacked; it is much different to when a normal person is attacked such as a middle class adult. Throughout the whole of our production we used natural lighting as a means to bring realism to the sequence so the audience can relate to it and feel like it’s an everyday situation. Our choice of music is the backing track of a possible rap song that gangsters may listen to because firstly, it contains a heavy kick drum line which most rap and hip hop songs consist of, secondly, a gun shot is heard throughout the track signalling violence or crime which can point to the stereotypical gangster. It fit the video very well as it is only a soundtrack rather than a track with vocals in, we wanted the audience to concentrate on the images being created rather than the music, and therefore, we used a song without lyrics by looping the introduction line.
With the gangster market growing, especially in London in Britain, gangster films can be enjoyed by the main audience members that have money to spend without being taxed, teenager. We would not expect elder people to watch out product as gangster life appeals more to young adults and teenagers especially. Although violence is not wanted, it is a good way to show what happens when violence does happen and that it doesn’t always end well even for the “good guy” of the movie. This product is portrayed in the action/gangster/revenge genre, therefore, it will appeal more to certain people, and by adding more genre’s people who like any of these genre’s may consider viewing it. Gangster films are one of the most popular genre’s in the media today with hit films such as “The Godfather”, “Scarface”, “Goodfellas”, and “Casino”. In public surveys and questions these four films are always considered in at least the top 10 of films to date, this is the viewer’s choice and they often have the same trend.
When targeting an audience you need to make you that you make something that appeals to them that’s why we feature more than one genre in our production, this will entice more audience members to watch the movie. Also fans of music and hip hop/rap will possibly watch this movie because of their pure love of music, even more so, members of gangs may watch this to see how it portrays there lifestyle and makes them look, they will either enjoy it or dislike it but results of our survey says that 80% liked our sequence. The participants of our survey were teenagers and one adult, the adult enjoyed the sequence and gave good comments such as “good use of camera angle’s to show the dominant and none dominant people, also good pace when the fight scene takes place as it gives a rush of adrenaline as the sequence flows through, the music fits well, and use of slow motion makes the main character look “scary” also good work in establishing time, place, people and actions.” The teenagers gave similar remarks “very good in effects and music choice”; we took into account all their comments and found that we had fulfilled the stereotype with 100% of them saying that we had done.
Our sequence created many enigmas such as why is he being followed? Why are they fighting with him? And what will happen next? Because towards the end of our sequence it fades out not revealing what happens to the main character, it also makes them want to keep watching because they want these questions to be answered and the only way they can be answered are if they watch the movie.
We contrasted the scenes dramatically; it went from a calm walk in the street to walking near a field as the character makes his way to the gym. The scenes change in place, setting and actions. The actor is walking through town calmly in the first couple of scenes then he is attacked from behind near a field giving contrast to each scene showing that violence in gangster life happens within the blink of an eye.

In the filming of the sequence, we had all kinds of shots such as high angled shots to make particular characters seem less dominant than others such as when he’s walking and when he’s in the gym, we also did an over the shoulder shot of him walking through the bus station letting us see what he could see. We opened the sequence with a high angle shot on the ground which is also a handheld shot to see what the main character can see. It slowly lifts up to reveal where he is walking through and what he can see, in different areas of the screen we spread out the credits starting with “…Presents”, therefore, making it look more like a movie. The use of long shots in our sequence allowed the audience and ourselves to see what was happening around him, we could see it was a natural setting where everyone was being normal only to change when he reached the field and gym. We can establish what is happening especially when easing another character into the scene such as when Munch was walking towards to camera near the field and the rival gangster came into shot following him which was unexpected to the audience. Accidently in the sequence we see that red features a lot in it signalling danger, although this was an unplanned event it helps contribute because it means danger and blood, giving the audience subliminal messages that something bad will happen.

“Youtube” and other sources of films such as DVD’s helped us to create our sequence as we watched opening sequences of similar genre’s to ours and they all gave us a vivid idea of what to include in ours, “Youtube” was the most useful as it was quick and simple to get the clips that we wanted on, but DVDs gave us the quality we needed. The internet also helped in our research of the typical stereotypes and genre’s as poll websites helped us find the best films in a specific genre and also other websites helped us find numbers and data to help us know where gangster movies ranked in a genre chart, this was based on the amount of views a movie got. “imovies” helped us to create our sequence as this was our base program to use but “Photoshop” also helped to enhance the pictures that Aimee took, which were not used in the end. I found that “imovies” was easy to use as I had used it previously in GCSE in high school; therefore, our group had no problem with editing and enhancing our sequence. The pendrives helped us transfer data from one place to our imac, enabling us the best possible outcome for our sequence, even though it was filmed in a very short amount of time, I edited to the best of my ability and made the little bits that didn’t fit together properly, because they jumped, fit together and finished the sequence with the help of the group.
A limitation to “imovies” is that not all the transitions were what we wanted and therefore could not fulfil some of the transitions and editing we wanted, but overall it enabled us to edit our sequence by letting us chop pieces of movies up and when you imported the clips you recorded it separated most of the clips to make it easier to find.
Technology played a big part in our production from the camera’s we used to enable us to record our sequence to “imovies” and “Photoshop” also the technology that allows me to write my evaluation up, without technology creating a movie would be extremely difficult, therefore, technology played one of the biggest roles in our production.
Compared to our preliminary task, this sequence is much better as it contains more angles, more suitable music and more length. We were able to learn new skills in the production of the sequence and were able to make it more exciting compared to our preliminary task. We found the prelim task to be more of a fun activity, therefore, less effort was put into it, the opening sequence was much more hard work and enabled us to experience filming techniques and as well as have fun, work hard to get the task done properly.

In conclusion, compared to our prelim task, the sequence definitely contains more angles, shots and action involved, therefore, it makes me feel happy that it was a success, but a lot of hard work was put into something that was just two minutes long, technology played a huge part in helping this happen. The transitions were better because we used more transitions and didn’t stick to just invisible cuts, we had fades in and outs and flashes which made it more exciting, also we had more room to film the sequence as well as try different shots such as the panning shots, views such as point of view and mid view and also the angels to show dominance. In the prelim task we couldn’t really make anyone look more or less dominant, therefore, the opening sequence shows more realism and excitement.
I feel that our sequence was a successful portrayal of the stereotypical gangster and the gangster genre, the definite strengths of our sequence was the camera angle and portrayal of setting and action shots, especially the fight scene. Also another strength is that the shots are not too long or too short, it’s long enough to get an overall grasp of what is happening in each shot. The natural lighting gives a sense of realism so our sequence looks more realistic and natural.
A limitation is the video quality, although the camera’s were of a high quality, the quality was not as good when filming in slightly darker place such as on the bus, therefore, the quality needed to be a bit better to ensure that the “fuzziness” effect wasn’t shown on the bus scene.

evaluation

The project that I was given was to create a two minutes film as an intro for a film , I worked in a group of four myself , Rebecca Frenandez, Ste Culshaw and Aimee Hilton. I stared as the main character in the film , as also contributing to the editing , and choosing the sound track and location for our project .
Our film is a gangster /teen drama there is a feeling of reality as a lot of the film is based on whats happening in real life at the moment , Our film is mainly based for 15-30 year old males although females and older viewers could find our film interesting after research on the same genre type films for example 'Kidulthood' and the sequel 'Adulthood'. As we started to shoot our film we came across some problems due to the location and time we had to shoot the film also a friend who was also in the film was not available so we had to change our original story line even though these changes where made I found that this gave the film a gritter and more suspenseful edge to our film and worked well with the special effects ,sounds and leaves the viewer wondering and helps the story unfolds.
Mise on scene is based on teenage every day life , The characters are dressed and act like yobs this includes baggy jeans and track suits , hoodies and a ;swagger' when they walk to say that they are up to no good. This is the stereotype teens are getting now-days but in our film if you look deeper the main character is trying to do well in sport as he is working hard toward his goal. Witch is not usually seen in the public eye .we did not use any speech in the film , I think this was a good idea as actions speak louder than words and we found that the non-diegetic music worked better when we applied it to the film .We tried to use as much media language as possible and the lighting in most off the film is natural but working with the special affects works very well I thought as we wanted to keep the film as realistic as we could and give an impression of society today.

When we presented our film to our audience the reaction was quite surprising as they enjoyed it and gave positive feedback and wanted to watch more , they said that they liked the storyline and that the production was good . Although the majority of the viewers where young and in the age group the film was ment for , maybe older viewers may not of enjoyed it we would need to research this by showing the film to older viewers, The reaction we wanted for the viewers was of course a good reaction but also for them to realize that yes this is the typical stereotype of teenagers now a days but that this is not always the case in all teenagers that we are good citizens and not 'thugs'.A big inspiration and guide line for our film was 'Kidulthood' , This is a British film about the lives and troubles of some teenagers growing up in east London a poor area where drugs and violence is a way of life for some people. Even though this film is full of negatives its to show youngsters and gives a good message this is what we would of liked our viewers to of seen.
In our film we tried to make our characters appearance show there personality as the way they walk and acted show that they where people that you would think are unfriendly and un-approachable even though as many teenagers know this is not the case and people may be afraid to go near and talk to just because they think they are dangerous but this is the image that the media has given teens when most of the time it is a false impression , In our film we tried to create enigmas for example ' why are the teens at war with each other ? ' , 'What happens later in the film ?'who is the other characters in the film ?'i think these are good enigmas as they keep the viewer hooked to the story line and asks the question are teens really like this in reality?.
We put a grit to the film by editing the footage we did this by speeding and slowing the footage down to stand the characters out , we used bright clothing to show danger the red and yellow hooded jumpers symbolize this .
In conclusion our film was a succsess and i enjoyed filming and producing it, i have lernt alot about filming and editing witch i didnt know much about before the task was given to us ,and i would consider making a full film not just the introduction.

Evaluation.

 

         The project that I have made is a two minute long clip, which is part of a film. I made this as part of a group project, in this group was four people, including me. The other people that I worked with are, Rebecca Fernandez, Jurguen Munch, and Steven Culshaw. I contributed to the filming of the clip, and also editing, whilst taking extra photographs to be used in the clip. I also chose the sound track, for the short clip. In the end the images didn’t get used, but instead of them going to waste I have used them in this evaluation.

         Our Clip is a hybrid genre, it is a gangster style film and also a teen drama, there is also action included into the story line, and the clip is mainly based at teenaged males, to adult males, probably between the ages 14-30 years of age. Even though research on similar films shows that also female teenagers, of the same age, might also be quite interested in our project.
The end product was slightly different, than what we had expected. As our clip progressed we had to make a few changes, because our original story-line would not have been able to work, because of the people that we had involved in the filming of the project. After coming to the conclusion that we would have to change the story-line a little, we all agreed that the decision worked out for the best in the end. I think our clip would be successful, because it includes many problems, of what some teenagers have in their lives, and it also gives other people insight of what other people living, in and around the U.K. have to experience, and sometimes on a daily basis. I think this is important in a person’s education, and out-look on life in general.
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think our choices in the film proved successful, because others had commented on how well it was executed on a whole, and how the special effects  had worked well, to maximise the clips potential, and how others would see it. The clip that we made was actually an opening sequence, which then leaves for the least of the story-line to unfold. The clip certainly challenges the genre of the film. It does this by the action, linking to the teen drama genre, and the fighting which also goes together with the drama, but also the gangster factor.

The Mise en Scene of the clip generally links in with the gangster genre; the characters are dressed in average teenage clothes, which are jeans, tracksuit bottoms, and hoodies. Where as also hoodies can be suggested as a link to yobs, and hoodlums. This all generally links with how we have decided to represent teenagers. Here on one side, we have a teenage lad, who is trying to do well with sport, and then on another side, we decided to show how teenagers are generally seen in the public eye, with the use of costumes, and weapons, I feel that we have represented both sides equally as well. Even thought it challenges the stereotype of teenagers, by also having a teenager that wants to do well in life, whilst still dressing in the same way as the actual stereotype would normally. We decided not to use any speech in the film, as we felt that the use of non diegetic music would work better and give a greater effect than normal diegetic speech would do. All factors of media language are used to the advantage, each is equally incorporated into the clip, and all are equally important, to give the project the full effect as it should do. The lighting for example is natural, because we wanted to keep the look of the clip, as real-life as we could do. We wanted to educate others into the lives of people who are involved in gangs, and not giving people a bad impression of at least one of the characters, and make people to re-consider their views of teens in recent years.

         I think our audience responded well to our film, because it was made to make people think, “maybe we have got it wrong about some teens” and make people realise that they don’t have to be scared of every teen when they walk down the street. But also give them insight of the harsh reality that some people have to go through, because of the area they are brought up in.

         If we was to consider making a whole entire film, and wishing to market it, and turn the whole prospect bigger, I would look to the film production company ‘Stealth Films’ which is based in great Britain. My reason for this is because they have helped produce a film which is ‘Kidulthood’ because it has a similar type of idea as we had making out film. Kidulthood is based on looking into the gangster areas of London, and how some teens grow up in London. Showing many sides, some people being better off, but then some stuck in the harsh realities that them types of areas, are portrayed to have.

         The age group that our project is focused at would be in the area of ages 14-30 years of age, mostly focused on male bias, but as wrote earlier in the evaluation, a secondary target audience would be for some female viewers. I feel the people that would enjoy the film would like Hip-hop style music, also rap and RnB. This is because of the stereotype we are given to look to.

         In this clip we have tried to create binary oppositions, and include conflict. We made the characters’ appearance, make them look like they would usually be friend in other circumstances. We have also created many enigmas for people to question “why the characters at are war?” and “where is he going on the bus?”, “will the situation be resolved in a later clip?” and also “who is the character at the end of the film?” I feel that these are very good enigmas because these begin to prove that not every single teenager will be a malicious person. Or not every teenager will hang around in threatening gangs.

         We have used many different editing techniques, to enhance the story line, and also to enhance the over-all out look on the film.        

         Looking back over my preliminary task, I feel I have learnt an epic amount of things, to make a full and finished product. I have learnt how to vary the composition of shots, to make the out-look, more creative and dynamic. I have found many different effects that I can use to emphasise the story-line of the product, and also to make the finished product appeal more to the view, so it is ultimately more aesthetically pleasing. I am also please to say that I have learnt how to edit properly, to a good standard.

 

Conclusion

         I feel that my groups finished product, was very strong. I feel that some of the strong points of the clip were the composition of some of the shots; I feel they worked well, and to the best of our advantage. I do feel that as time went on some of our group members because slightly less interested, and wasn’t working to their full ability, and I also feel that some didn’t but as much effort, and commitment as others did. I am also pleased with all the new and extremely useful techniques that I have learnt.

 

 

Casino Royale Chase Scene Analysis

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The chase scene begins with an extreme long shot of a town centre in Madagascar. Digetic sounds are heard from the people in the town centre. The town centre is like a market place with only stalls and no buildings. The people are all chanting and betting on a fight between a snake and a ferret. Then we see a medium shot a man in the crowd who drinks out of his bottle of beer and then proceeds to watch the animals fight. the camera then zooms out to a British man who is talking to an unknown man who we later find out is James Bond. We then see a second extreme long shot but this time it is of people sat on top of walls and buildings to see the fight. The man who was previously drinking out of the beer bottle is then showed again but this time he is answering his phone. Whilst the man is on the phone James Bod realizes that he is the bomb maker. Bond then tells a man who is sat close to the Bomb Maker to not let him get away. The Bomb Maker then realizes that some people are after him an turns away from the camera shot and runs in the opposite direction while the man on the phone to Bond can just stand and watch the man escape. The man then begins to chase after the bomb maker who has just ran through the fight ring and is nearly bitten by the snake. The man chasing the bomb maker is then stopped because he runs into so people in the crowd and then he an the people he ran into fall off the stands that they are stood on and into the middle of the fighting ring. At this point Bond sees the bomb Maker escaping from the fighting arena and begins to chase him. This chase then carries on until the building site. The Bomb Maker then hides behind some industrial pipes and pulls out a hand gun, he then looks around for Bond but he cannot see him anywhere. We then see a long shot of a shack and a fence being bulldozed by a Caterpillar Truck. The chase then continues through the building site as the Bomb Maker shoots at the Truck that Bond is in. The truck then crashes at the bottom of some scaffolding. The Bomb Maker begins to climb up the scaffolding as Bond follows him up it. Whilst Bond is half way up the scaffolding the truck that he was previously driving explodes. The shot then changes to the bomb maker who is at the top of the scaffolding. From the camera angle we can see that the Bomb maker is trapped at the top of the scaffolding, but then from another angle we can see a crane dangling some steel pipes. The bomb maker makes a desperate attempt to escape by jumping on the crane, he makes the jump and then begins to climb up the crane to the top, the shot then changes to Bond, he also makes the jump from the scaffolding to the crane. The builders on the site look on in amazement whilst Bond and the Bomb Maker climb up the huge scaffolding. We can still hear non-digetic music playing at a fast pace to match the chase. Once both men reach the top of the crane they then begin to carry on running through the pillars in the crane, the Bomb maker then jumps from one crane to another with Bond following closely behind. The Bomb maker then stops an pulls out a gun and aims it at Bond. Bond then grabs the gun and the men begin to tussle on top of the crane. the Bomb maker manages to shrug off Bond who slips off the crane but manages to keep hold of the platform. The Bomb maker then makes an attempt to get away whilst Bond is struggling to get back onto the crane platform, the Bomb maker jumps from the crane onto a rooftop and then onto another rooftop. By now Bond has managed to pull himself back onto the platform and has began to proceed with the chase, he watches the Bomb maker jump from rooftop to rooftop before doing the same himself, however Bonds attempt is not very good, he makes the jump to the first rooftop and then falls off it onto the next roof, from the floor he can see the Bomb maker running away round the corner he then gets back to his feet and begins to chase the bomb maker once more the chase then goes through the site where the builders are working with the bomb maker narrowly avoids being caught on the electric saw, Bond then comes from another angle trying to cut off the Bomb makers path, however he is a bit to slow and the Bomb maker sees Bond and then begins to run in the opposite direction which is the elevtor shaft he jumps down the shaft and kicks off the wall to get on the floor below and begins to run off again, then we see Bond drop down through a hole in the floor to get to the same floor as the bomb maker the chase then continues again the bomb maker then makes an attempt to get away by jumping through a small window, this does not slow Bond down because he just runs through the paper thin wall, the chase then leaves the building site and enters onto the main road the chase continues down the main road until the chase ends at the Madagascan Embassy.

The film follows Carlton Leach from his younger days as a 'footsoldier' among the ranks of the ICF to membership of a notorious gang who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The film focuses on three decades of his life, following him from football hooliganism through his burgeoning career as a nightclub bouncer and his involvement in the criminal aspects of the early 'rave' scene, until finally becoming one of the most feared criminals in the country. The story concludes with three members of his gang - Tony Tucker, Craig Rolfe and Pat Tate - being brutally slain in the infamous Rettendon Range Rover triple murders of December 1995.

F1 Jedi Prelim Task

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This is our prelim task, the plot of the story was that the girls were trading some goods accross the table. This turned out to be a good success, however, due to the time we were unable to record all of what we needed, therefore, we improvised and delt with what we had.

We used several different types of camera shots such as long shot, mid-shot, extreme close ups and over the shoulder shots. This allowed the sequence to flow with the help of invisible editting and simple cut shots. We were able to stay within the 180 ° rule, as we shot the angels from one side of the point of action/conversation. 

The music we chose was very limited as there was no other music on the player, so with the amount of time we had we chose this music to give a comedy side to the sequence as well as to give the sequence a lift of non-diagetic sounds rather than just diagetic sound/noise in the background. We extracted the audio and silenced the scene where she walks in and replaced it with the non-diagetic sound of music. Once she sits down we faded the music down but still had it playing quietly underneath as the diagetic sounds of them talking needed to be heard. The music fades back in throughout the credits and stops in sync to the credits ending.

To improve our piece of film we would spend more time filming, if it was possible, and also we would have chosen a better soundtrack if we had more choice in the itunes player. Also some shots were a little shakey, this was either due to the actor being unable to stand still or because the camera was a little shakey, to improve this we would ask the actress to stand perfectly still and the camera would need to be steady.

Overall our prelim task was a success and we feel that this experience will help us with future recordings.

Analysis of "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" Opening Sequence

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The above clip is the opening sequence of the number one rated British gangster film called "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels".

Firslty, each shot is done as a simple and invisible cut to the next shot, this is useful to make a movie flow and go in a chronilogical order. Instead of using fades to introduce a new clip or a different title, simple cuts enable the clips to switch back and forth from a title to a movie clip.

The cinematography used is varied as sometimes it has point of view shots and sometimes it uses steady shots. The point of view shots allow us to feel like we are a part of the movie where we can see and hear what everyone else in the scene can hear through the diagetic sounds of talking, walking and the jewelry on the table. The give a sense of realism and can emphasize what we can feel and think because everyone else may be feeling the same, it also intregues us, therefore, it makes us want to peer over the other people's shoulders to see what is happening. This is shown at the beginning of the scene where the camera is tracking towards the crowd to see what is happening like a human, and to emphasize the realism it has people walking in front of the camera like people do with us in real life. When the steady shots are used these would have been either handheld or had a tripod used. These closeups help us to see the expressions on the face of the dealer, and also it allows us to know what he looks like. The midshots through the point of view shots helps the audience see what kind of clothing they wear or what thier characteristics are like how they stand or move. We can see that this dealer is a confident man.

The titles are white, old type-writer style of writing, on a black background. This allows us to see what the words say and who produced, stars and the name of the movie. As the movie title is revealed to us we see that it is "typed" into the screen as if someone is writing the story and telling us about it. This is a good way of opening a title scene because it doesn't just show the title, it plays with it and waits for us to see what the title is rather than straight away know what it is. The connatations of each title could mean that this person has a dark history and has renewed it, or it could be just so we can see what it says.

The clothes used show a stereotypical dealer trying to dress well but also is trying to keep warm as the day may be quite cold as he is wearing a black coat, dark coloured scarf. He may wear it to let the people in the crowd assume he is like them and none threatening, however, people with a "buzz cut" hairstyle often can look threatening as this is the style of hair cut that people who were once or still in jail have. He seems like a nice, confident, helpful person who is just trying to work, however, once the police are seen by him he eventually reveals his true personality of a dealer/gangster. The man runs from the police not wanting to be caught so this shows he has done something very wrong.

One specific editting was used on the scene where they are running through the alley way, the slow motion clip emphasizes the surreal feeling and fear that is running through them. This part is very memorable because it shows a surreal feeling.

The lighting is of a natural setting so it also gives the sense of realism.