Inception
Mise en Scene
Camerawork
Sound
Editing
Inception was directed by Christopher Nolan and made in 2010. We are introduced to this thriller by hearing diegetic sound of crashing waves and seeing in a long shot of the sea and the waves hitting the shore and rocks. We also hear non-diegetic sound of nerve-racking music at the beginning leading to us meeting the first character of the film.
The next shot is a close up of the first character's face in water as he is laying in the sea, presumably because he has been washed up. The character has very wet hair, and a bit of blood, which then gets washed away. This makes the audience wonder what has happened to this character, and it starts to make the audience want to ask loads of questions. This then leads to us seeing a long shot of two children, a little boy and a little girl, flicking sand back and playing in the beach. The character in the water looks up longingly, showing a sad facial expression at the children, with slow motion editing he looks at the children and then looks back at the character in water at a close up to his face. We then get shown the two children run away and the girl scream, this creates confusion in the audience and makes them intrigued because you can't see what they scream at.
The camerawork in this thriller uses restricted narration to do this and create a reaction from the audience. The audience are then shocked by seeing a close-up of the character's back as he is laying on the shore, we then see a prop, a big gun, poke his back, but the character doesn't move. This scares the audience as they don't know what this character has done for a man to put a gun up to him. We are then introduced to a second character, who was holding the gun. With a medium shot we are only shown from just below his shoulders and his head, he has some kind of army uniform which shows superiority and shows he is part of something very important. This second character is then shown to lift up out first characters top from the back revealing a gun at close up angle and we see his shocked facial expression. This alerts our second character and we hear him shout at someone at a long shot of a building, which also worries us as the audience because we are not sure what's going on.
We then see a long shot of the inside of a building, it has quite low key lighting however the ceiling is covered in lights. As we see this room, the camera pans slightly and continues to zoom inside more. We are constantly hearing a very scary track of music, making the audience feel like something really bad will happen soon. There is then an extreme close up of the objects that were in our first characters pocket; a gun and an unknown object.
We are then introduced to a third character who turns his head very slowly to the left at a medium shot, just before the scene is very quickly cut to see our first character being dragged in by two other people, as the camera dolly's the group so we can see the action. Slowly tilting up, we are seeing our fist character at a close up, eating food that had been given to him. By the way he was eating this, we can tell he hadn't eaten for a while, which makes the audience want to know what he's been through. An over the shoulder shot from our first character, viewing our third character, he is talking to our first character, the first thing he says is "are you trying to kill me?" this shocks the audience because he hadn't said anything up to that point. Our first character remains silent as out third character is talking, we then see a close up on our third characters hand, the gun and the other object as he lifts them up commenting about how he "knows what it is".
We continue to have this character talking and he suddenly mentions a certain name, which then shocks our first character as we see him in a medium shot, he looks up very shocked and wide eyed. This thriller opening is very good because it's shocking and keeps the audience in suspense, they want to keep asking questions as it's very restricted narration.
Mise en Scene
Camerawork
Sound
Editing
Inception was directed by Christopher Nolan and made in 2010. We are introduced to this thriller by hearing diegetic sound of crashing waves and seeing in a long shot of the sea and the waves hitting the shore and rocks. We also hear non-diegetic sound of nerve-racking music at the beginning leading to us meeting the first character of the film.
The next shot is a close up of the first character's face in water as he is laying in the sea, presumably because he has been washed up. The character has very wet hair, and a bit of blood, which then gets washed away. This makes the audience wonder what has happened to this character, and it starts to make the audience want to ask loads of questions. This then leads to us seeing a long shot of two children, a little boy and a little girl, flicking sand back and playing in the beach. The character in the water looks up longingly, showing a sad facial expression at the children, with slow motion editing he looks at the children and then looks back at the character in water at a close up to his face. We then get shown the two children run away and the girl scream, this creates confusion in the audience and makes them intrigued because you can't see what they scream at.
The camerawork in this thriller uses restricted narration to do this and create a reaction from the audience. The audience are then shocked by seeing a close-up of the character's back as he is laying on the shore, we then see a prop, a big gun, poke his back, but the character doesn't move. This scares the audience as they don't know what this character has done for a man to put a gun up to him. We are then introduced to a second character, who was holding the gun. With a medium shot we are only shown from just below his shoulders and his head, he has some kind of army uniform which shows superiority and shows he is part of something very important. This second character is then shown to lift up out first characters top from the back revealing a gun at close up angle and we see his shocked facial expression. This alerts our second character and we hear him shout at someone at a long shot of a building, which also worries us as the audience because we are not sure what's going on.
We then see a long shot of the inside of a building, it has quite low key lighting however the ceiling is covered in lights. As we see this room, the camera pans slightly and continues to zoom inside more. We are constantly hearing a very scary track of music, making the audience feel like something really bad will happen soon. There is then an extreme close up of the objects that were in our first characters pocket; a gun and an unknown object.
We are then introduced to a third character who turns his head very slowly to the left at a medium shot, just before the scene is very quickly cut to see our first character being dragged in by two other people, as the camera dolly's the group so we can see the action. Slowly tilting up, we are seeing our fist character at a close up, eating food that had been given to him. By the way he was eating this, we can tell he hadn't eaten for a while, which makes the audience want to know what he's been through. An over the shoulder shot from our first character, viewing our third character, he is talking to our first character, the first thing he says is "are you trying to kill me?" this shocks the audience because he hadn't said anything up to that point. Our first character remains silent as out third character is talking, we then see a close up on our third characters hand, the gun and the other object as he lifts them up commenting about how he "knows what it is".
We continue to have this character talking and he suddenly mentions a certain name, which then shocks our first character as we see him in a medium shot, he looks up very shocked and wide eyed. This thriller opening is very good because it's shocking and keeps the audience in suspense, they want to keep asking questions as it's very restricted narration.
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