Brick Opening Sequence

Brick

Cinematography-
The great shots used in this sequence are the end shots where the female character (The one who is dead at the end) reaches into into her locker, this is the sort of shot that i would use. The close up of the male characters face at the beginning really helped to set the tone for the entire opening sequence, it helped to show that there was clearly a rapore between the two characters (before the girl died) this helps to make the viewer ask questions about the rest of the film, meaning that they will continue to watch the film.


Sound-
The music in the opening provides a very eerie atmosphere in the sequence, this heightens the major themes of; death, Sadness and loss. The music helps to reinforce the work that the shots do. This contrasted with the daily sounds of school life connotes a return to normality for the character, This also helps to show the time jump backwards, indicating that the film takes place before the events of the death, this makes the viewer ask more questions about the film.


Editing-
Match-on-action is a very prominant peice of editing used in this peice, it is used very vividly when the male character is scanning the girls body,(sees the guys face, then flicks to what he is looking at.) Apart from this the editing is very scarce this in its self could mean something, it could represent the nitty gritty nature of the film, and the fact that the film is meant to be realistic to the viewer, this increases the shock factor of the sequence.


Mise-en-scene-
The Mise-en-scene differs throughout the opening sequence, in the the first section of the opening, the Mise-en-scene is very dark and eerie, this is the convention of the thriller genre, this fits the conventions of the genre. The school has a completely different mise-en-scene, this is due the the bright colors used and the fact that it is during the day, both of these aspects directly contrast with the mise-en-scene of the previous part of he film. the new "happy" mise-en-scene creates an equilibrium, this means that more things could go wrong.