Film Title: A
History of Violence
Director: David
Cronenberg
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Technique
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Effect
(Analysis)
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Camera – distance, angle,
movement…
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- Panning
- Low Angle
- Eye level
- Mid shot
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- Panning helps showing location and sets the scene of what is
happening
- By shooting characters in a low angle it makes them look bigger
denoting power and dominance
- An eye level shot helps give the viewer an angle of what it
would be like if you where there
- Mid shots give an advantage of that the viewer can see a lot of
things however it does mean it’s not it great detail.
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Editing – speed, style…
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- This could connote boredom as it feels the shots go on for “too
long” this would be made though to emphasise the dull environment that
they are in.
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Sound – effects, musical
score…
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- At the very start something what sounds like insects are played
with also a scary sounding effect.
- Car radio
- Diegetic sounds
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- The scary sound is just before you see the first two characters,
this connotes that they do or are involved in bad things. It also
happens shortly before they first talk, enforcing this point.
- When one of the characters first gets in the car it plays some
upbeat blues. This is an example of binary opposition as it connotes
dancing and happiness, not the scenario they are in.
- You can see the two characters talking to one another but they
both talk in quite dull and uninterested voices, showing they aren’t
really enjoying their situation.
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Mise-en-scene – props,
costume, setting, lighting, colour…
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- Western style town
- Car
- Bright
- Working class/casual clothing
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- The opening shot pans across the face of a building which
reminds me of a western style town it then drops back to show it being a
single story building and look like a tradition stereotypical town.
- The car is then introduced which is a convertible car, a
soft-top car connotes wealth and luxury
- The bright background also uses opposition within the text. The
eerie and scary soundtrack doesn’t fit into the feel of visual display.
- The working clothes denotes that they are standard citizens that
makes the viewer think it could happen to anyone.
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Titles – font, colour,
placement, over black / over clip…
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- Small fonts found in the bottom half of the screen
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In the opening
extract key names an the title fade in and out, however they are so small
that at first view I hardly noticed them. This shows me that I’ll have to
make them larger in my film to make them stand out.
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