Monday 16 December 2013

Research into Thrillers

Casino Royal (2006) Directed by Martin Campbell
Casino Royale (2006) Poster Within this opening sequence there are two states which are present day and a flashback so I'll be analyzing each state separately starting with present day as that is the first one to appear on screen. Both sequences are filtered with a black and white effect.-
Present Day
For the first 50 seconds of the sequence there was almost no ambient noise, although there were a lot of diegetic synchronous sounds such as the car pulling up to the complex, the elevator going up, foot steps, a door opening and light switching on. This is then harshly interrupted by a loud sharp sound, this being non-diegetic, that matches the man turning round startled to see Bond sat in, what appears to be, his office; to which they begin to exchange dialogue. The whole sequence regarding the high pitch noise and the reveal of Bond creates a large amount of suspense and anticipation and even more so when the man sits down, opens his drawer and rt

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