Monday, 16 November 2009

A walk on the wildside, Edward Dmytryts - 1962

Camera: The extract opens with a CU of the cat appearing from some pipe. All the way through the extract we can see that the cat is centralised, we also see a variety of HA shots which tells the audience that the cat is powerful.
Titles: The opening titles for this film are white against black, the font is a serif font and is capitalised, this tells the audience that it’s part of the thriller genre.

Editing: The whole sequence is relatively slow which builds up the tension and suspense. This is because the audience tracks the cat, the suspense is added to by the use of dissolves between the shots. We see the pace quicken when the two cats begin to fight.

Mise en scene: At the beginning of the scene the audience shown the black cat which is walking down the street and around pipes, this may suggest that the cat is somewhere in which building is in process, the colour of the cat (black) also shows the audience that the cat in question may be evil, this is then contrasted when we meet a white cat which may show the audience that the cat is good, when the two cats fight it may suggest that the plot line in the film is about a battle between good and evil.

Sound: During the extract the sound is non-diegetic which gets louder and as the editing and action gets faster, towards the end the music is slowly faded out,

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