Section 2: research of comparable media

American Psycho is about a man who is very politically correct and doesn’t look like a killer who has almost got a split personality to him.
The structure to the film is linear because the film unravels scene by scene and there is no jumping back between scenes.
The codes and convention in the opening scenes are that he does a voice over of his average morning telling the audience what different cosmetics he uses and what exercises he does. By showing you this audience think he has a compulsive disorder as he spend a long time on his appearance. This breaks conventions as its all about him.
The camerawork in the opening scene uses lots of reflections, his apartment has lots of surfaces which will reflect light, by doing this the audience get the impression that he has a split personality. He also talks in to the mirrors which make the audience think that he isn’t saying it.
The Mise En Scene in the opening scene is mainly in the apartment, as the apartment has lots of minimalistic furniture to show it to be clean and expensive. By putting minimalistic furniture in the apartment then it show the audience of him being a normal rich person, and not to expect him to be a murderer.
The sound used in the opening scene is contrasted as it starts out being a piece of music which is creepy and make the audience suspect that there is a murder going on as the raspberry sauce is being put on to a plate in a restaurant. Then it cuts to a peaceful piece of music when there sat in the restaurant as they are having a civilised meal together. After that it cuts to him being in a club where it is loud. Then finally it cuts to the camera travelling through the apartment with a piano playing.
In the opening scene there is only a one edit done to it. The reflection of him looking in the mirror, the main character is scene but the camera isn’t.
Finally the graphics at the start of the film shows a red substance being dropped on to a white background, the audience immediately believes that its blood as that is what the expect. The typography used contrast from bold solid type to It being an elegant type.

Jaws
The narrative structure to Jaws is a linear structure. Meaning it runs step by step and that it doesn’t jump back and forth.
Jaws used the code and convention from what Pascal Bonitza by using partial vision.
At the beginning of jaws the camerawork is under the water to make the audience think that it is a fish or shark.
It then cuts to a establishing shot.
Then the camera is above the water, doesn’t see beneath the water, this creates question about what it is. The audience is also in the water with the girl.
When the attack happens the camera is shaky to create a tense atmosphere.
The Mise-en-scene is the boy in the background which creates false hope.
There’s is also no artificial light so it gives the scene a creepy image
The sound at the beginning is load and on edge! Signature theme tune at the beginning
Non artificial sound
Establishing shot of all 3 characters
Kuleshov effect – establishing feeling by showing one thing then another- this is when she is in the water and is being attacted by the shark.
The only graphic is the name of the character and a big title saying ‘jaws’s the boy in the background which creates false hope.

Silence of the lambs

This film is a linear structure, meaning that the sequences run one after another.

The code and conventions are that she’s running through a forest which looks enchanted

WH Williams
Big type face so the audience can not see everything
Can not see the whole picture because the trees are in the way

Camerawork within the first part of the film tracks Jodie foster through the woods, make the audience thinks she maybe being followed
Lots of establishing shots of the lake
The camera the follows her down the corridor of the quarters zooming and panning
Mist using partial vision

Mise En Scene

Obstacles’ = training purposes
Signs saying
Demonstration
Dedication
Strength
Determination
Determined

Guns being cleaned
Jumper saying FBI Academy

The sound being used is very tense
Same music running through the scene
Creates a flow

Pan & zoom

Rather than cut eye line cut in office she see something cuts to what she looking at

Location naming establishing shot
Big bold heading

Terminator 2

terminator 2 is a linear structure

codes and conventions at the biginning of the film is that is show a nice peiceful park where children are play the it cuts to dead bodies and skull

camerawork

middle shot of childrem playing on swings

low shot of the dead bodys

shakey camera work

establishing shot

robot walk in to the picture

mise en scene

skulls of floor

weapons

dead bodys

burnt things

narrator explaining what happened

long and depressing music to add atmosphere

they have added beams of light for the guns on the robots

lots of explosions

graphics

text at the biginning to show the producers name etc

The Dark Knight

the dark night is a linear structure

at the biggining they are all wearing mask, make the audience think that its the joker, they antisapate his arrival

camera sweeps throught the buildings to the glass which is broken

moves with te people when they run

make the audience be in the action

sound very tence music, creates an atmosphere

panning and zooming in to building at begining

establishishing shot of the bank

so the audience know they are robbing a bank

graphics

names at the biginning