Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Face/Off (Woo,7/11/97,US)

In the opening sequence to the film 'Face/Off', the use of a piece of incidental music creates a serious atmosphere towards the audience. The increase in the pitch can suggest a serious tone and make the audience anxious as there is an alarmingly increasing sense of danger. This can make the audience ask questions such as what is going to happen, is it something dangerous and who is it going to affect.
Secondly, the Ambient sound of the gunshot and the impact of the shot creates a fearsome atmosphere towards the audience. The sound of the actually impact of the audience fightens the audience as they dont know who was shot or why. This will also leave the audience asking may questions such as what will happen to the shooter and they victim and for what reason did the character shot the other character.
In the opening sequence of te film 'Face/Off', the use of the close shot of the father and son character creates a happy and joyful atmosphere towards the audience. As the audience see the two characters smiling and enjoying themselves reassures the audience and makes the audience feel relaxed as the two characters are enjoying themselves therefore they dont need to worry about them. This will make the audience ask questions such as who are they, what are they doing and how strong their relationship is between them.




Furthermore, the extreme close up of the other male characters face and barrel of what appears to be a sniper rifle creates a dangerous and an intimidating atmosphere towards the audience. The use of the extreme close up immediately suggests that he is a bad and sinister character which will make the audience fear the character as the are unaware of what he is doing. This will leave the audience asking questions such as who is he, what is he doing, why has he got the gun and what is he going to do with it.  



In the opening sequence of the film 'Face/Off', the use of the prop (the carrousel) creates an enjoyful and pleasing atmosphere towards the audience. The Carrousel can realate to the audience as more that likely, everyone has fond memories of riding a carrousel therefore the audience can relate to the characters and can feel and share the characters enjoyment and pleasure.




In addition this, the use of preformence by the other male character can craft an intimidating atmosphere towards the audience. The cool and clam preformence by the male character as he drinks his drink and looks down the barrel of the gun can cause the audience to fear him as he dosn't try hard to be intimidating. This can make the audience ask questions likw who is he, what is he doing and why is he doing what he is.


   
In the opening sequence of the film 'Face/Off', the use of the long duration of clips of the father and son characters can create a nice and peaciful atmosphere towards the audience. the long duration of clips can suggest the father and son have a very good relationship between them and that they are really enjoying themselves. This can make the audience feel happy for them as they are have such a good time.
Moreover, the light brown colour tint creates a clam atmosphere towards the audience. The colour tint can make the shot seem authentic and a memorie. this can make the audience ask questions such as if it is a memory, what happen the either one of the chatacters and why. This can also make the audience symphasis with the characters as they dont know have has happened or will happen, therefore making them worry about the and thier well being.

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