Sunday 21 November 2010

Ms Wigley - blade runner

The film trailer Blade runner uses a wide variety of shot types in order to create thrill and suspense for the target audience .  One of  the scenes uses a long shot ,whereby the mad guy comes in to torment the police officer whilst inside the building , that scene particularly creates some sort of mystery . An extreme long shot has been used from the top of the roof with the TDK sign attached to a building  , the colours of this sign are in red which connotes danger  and white which glamorises a horror scene. A landscape shot has been used for the opening scene which establishes , where the actors shall be performing .Although as an audience , we do not see the actors from the start of the video clip , this creates suspense and an urgency for us to want to know, what shall be happening next . A point of view shot , is used when the police officer looks at the blade runner , ready to run ... then the camera shifts towards that scene where the man has just been looking ; in order to run . Medium shot, of the two men talking to each other ,which creates a sense of harmony for the audience . An extreme close up of the bladerunners face with blood upon it which denotes a murder.
2 low angle shots are used , one of the man standing on the roof top , and the other when the bladerunner jumps from one building to the next .Both of those scenes used together show the power of the blade runner and the police officer . A high angle shot with birds eye shot are simultaneously used in the very beginning of the scene , when the man is hanging onto an object of some kind ,clinging on for his life . When the white dove is released , a low angle shot has been used , to create freedom .
High angle shot of the police officers face ,whilst he is lying on the floor , this makes him look like a slave .

Mise en scene .
A range of pyrotechnical equipment has been used successfully , in order to create a thriller .
Firstly Smoke machines have been used in the background , from behind the officer , smoke connotes danger and a horror scene . A revolver has also been used , which continually goes round and round , perhaps this signifies that there is no hope , that life is bleak and has no real end to it . Another interpretation could be that the revolver symbolises new hope , for the man who is an alien .
Rain to symbolise the tears of damnation on the blade runners face , also to connote unhappiness and fear of threat . Use of dark blood on the blade runners face , to make him look scary and fearful . At the end of the scene ,there are police cars to denote that a crime has been commited. The white dove denotes purity and hope.

Filler light is used within the man on the edge of the rooftop ,which softens the shadows of the scene (@ 32 seconds ) . Use of back light and filler light from behind the blade runner to make him look dark and evil.
Dark , low key lighting is used between the blade runners face pointing downwards, and the release of the dove .

Musical score used in the blade runner is powerful classical music ,comprising of trumpets ,flute,drums and bells ,which is also the theme tune for the film . Perhaps this use of non diagetic sound wanting to create suspense has been implemented successfully ,although the starting scenes do not contain this music . Sound of the gunshot ....which is connected to crime . The diagetic sounds used are the voices of the blade runner ,the police officer and the other police chief in the end .

The genres of the film are science fiction with action .

1 comment:

  1. WWW - Well done - this contained considered analysis of many aspects of the film, particularly the mise-en-scene

    EBI - Use the word 'connotes' rather than 'denotes' wheh you are analysing the possible additional meanings of signs.

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