Identity. James Marygold. (2003)
the Opening scene consists of around 80 Shots.
most of them going very Quickly flicking through like a note book animation. Each shot was about 3 seconds long but most of them were less than a second as i said before they flick through very, very quickly.
The first scene starts off with voices over the opening credit that fades on a black back ground. it then cuts to a close up of a tape recorder playing, (as you can see the tape wheels moving) the tape recorder is in focus and everything else in the Mise-en-scene. what you guess is coming from the tape recorder playing is a man's voice reading a poem and then another man's voice asking where he learnt that. the camera keeps cutting to other close up shots of the tape recorder, and random pictures of children's drawings, and photos of murdered people and suspicious forms. All covered up by diegetic Sound the whole way through, occasionally you hear the tape rewinding.
The opening scene also consists of a medium shot of a man talking about his past and looking at all the odd documents, pictures and tapes. Whilst the man is looking at all these things the credits come on slowly and flicker off leaving the odd letter. The first scean seems to end as the music stops and the screen cuts to a close up of a phone ringing.
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Well done for getting this posted Finn but I wanted you to post research notes on the five films that we watched in the lesson.
ReplyDeleteYou have some detail here but you need to express your observations more precisely using media terminology. eg: 'The first scene starts off with voices over the opening credit, on a black background.' The film opens as the opening credit fades up on black and a voiceover is heard "".
Please post notes on other films.
Relabel this as film research
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