Jacks

The Disaperance of Alice Creed:

-the beginning  of this film has no talking between the characters, this shows that they are well planned out and don't need to talk because they already know what they are doing, this makes us feel like something is wrong and they are doing something bad.
- There are very slow changes betweens scenes (slow pace) this is making us feel like we are knowing the characters better.
-The non-diegetic music in this opening sequence starts off at a slow pace and is very quiet, it then slows down more when you see inside the room they are building, it feels as if the music is making the characters relaxed but makes us feel quite tense because of the minor and diminished notes. When they entered the woods, strings are entered in the song, it makes us feel more because of the notes they use there too. They enhance the sound of the diegetic sound like the drills to make the audience focus on the sounds. The music stays the same pace the whole way through the beginning,
-They use a lot of long shots and Close ups, the long shots are used to make the room feel spaced and the close ups are used to make  us used to the characters.


The Six Sense:
-opening has a subliminal colour of red, the colour is used a lot in this opening, this is to show unusual things happening and anger in the boy.
-at the beginning of the film, the woman goes down the stairs and the shot is blocked slightly by a plank of wood, this shows things are obscure with her and something is wrong.
-the lighting is very dark, by having a light-bulb light up at the start is very clever because is makes us think that things are bright but really everything is not.
-the scenes are very slow to change
-it looks like they are very happy together, but the lighting shows that something bad is going to happen.

Jaws:

-the non-diegetic sound at the start of the movie is very very tense, it starts with the camera staying under the water as if was a p.o.v of the shark. It makes us feel nervous already before the movie has even started!
-It then breaks into a happy song being played by a man with a harmonica and everyone is having a good time on the beach, this changes the mood completely. this is a good example of contrapuntal sound.
-a woman then jumps in the water and man tries to go in with her, this is when the music starts playing again, this makes the audience feel more tense; even more so when the shot switches to a p.o.v of the shark.
-it then changes to a open view of the sea when she gets taken down, this makes it look like nothing has happened, and the man just feels like it is the open sea, it also can feel like now she is gone, the whole thing is empty.

Pulp Fiction:

-it stays on the same shot for a long time, this is to make sure we know the characters and make them know what they are like and get a first impression.
-They are talking about killing people and talking about guns, this is letting us know something is up.
-they use medium close ups and Close ups.
-They use a tracking shot on the man to show him more and what he looks like.
-he also talks about robbing a coffee shop and wonders why nobody does is, this shows us that they are letting us know something of what is going to happen.


Psycho:

-the opening music is non-diegetic sound, this music is very intense, it is letting us know that there is trouble already and we should be waiting for something wrong to happen.
-The first shot is a landscape shot of the city
-the lighting is clever because they go into a dark room but they are brightened up.
-the bright lights makes us think danger and violence is going to happen