Chapter 5: Sound

Sound is very important to a film, it can transform the scenes into much more than. In this film the use of sound is simplified in the sense that it doesn't have any crazy unnatural sounds. There is no symbolizm or motifs. Silence in this film is either where it is needed as they interview Clive Owen in the beginning and the end of the film. In the beginning of the film, the introductory scene has a song called Chaiyya Chaiyya which is a Hindu song. The dialogue in this film is very functional and fast paced since much of the movie is either the robbers dealing with the hostages and or the cops or the cops talking to eachother about the robbers, so much of what is taking place is fast dialogue. There tends to be swearing, again mainly in the intense scense where it is more necicerry and adds to the drama and heat of the shot. The voice over narrator is Clive's character who talks in the beginning and the end of the film, in the beginning he is explaining the story only the story is incomplete and by the time the movie is ending the story comes full circle and the movie has covered what story Clive started to tell in the beginning of the film. Then the movie picks up where he stops telling and thus completing the story and the movie as a whole. He was chosen to narrate the story because it is him who was the robber, he knows what is going on, it is his story. Who better to tell the story?

Chapter 4: Editing

In this movie, there was fast passed scences where quick cutting was neccisery, and not to mention our cultures short attention span gets bored with anything less. So the scenes where the movie has a high intensity, there are many more cuts. There are very few scense where the shots are lengthy, the only time you see this is at the beginning and the middle of the film where the camera is directly on Clive Owen were he is talking for a lengthened time. Or in the interigation room where the camera shots might be on one persons face for a ten second period at the max. Particularly in this film as I mention before, in scenes of high intesity there is going to be more cuts to make it more chaotic and less cut and dry. How does your mind work when your stressed and thinking about a million things you have to do that day? It's all over the place, film is no different.

Chapter 3: movement

During many of the scences the camera is kept up close to the action to emphasize movement. There are of coarse high angles and panning shots, and long shots. Which all good movies should have to give a variety of emphasize on different scenes. For example the beginnging shot is a long shot showing an entire city with the buildings, the city streets, the moving cars and crowded streets. This shows the movement of city life and gives a sense of the busy lifestyle attributed to a large city and the movement as a whole. It also sets up the movie right of the bat to show where the movie will be taking place and in turn it sets up the rest of the so you have a general understading of time and place. So camera angles and movement can tell a lot about a film. The movie scenes are very naturalistic, they tend to show realistic movements of walking, falling, all the regular movements a human would make are typically shown this way. The majority of the shots are filmed lyrically with naturalistic patterns but as a hiest movie goes, it does tend to be a chaotic film so parts where there is intended confusion or high areas of stress it is depicted in such a way.