Friday 12 December 2008

Thriller Opening - Layer Cake

Director: Matthew Vaughn, 2004.
Opening shot/Mise-en-scene/shot types: medium shot of the explosion in the van, genrly zooms out, instantly makes impact and grabs the audiences’ attention. Close up of drugs, and shown different time period flashbacks. Siren and camera zooms out and begins panning, slow paced film, high angle shot which makes the characters look like they are being watched, long shot shoging the drive in, extreme long shot following the car going along rural road to large mansion. Midshot shows them walking, following the characters and rorates around table whiles rockish music played.
Opening credits: First titles of producers etc, centred and plain with no music. Black and white, white writing of title layer cake on the door of his terrace house.
Narrative perspective: internal monologue – thriller signifier – match everything up and well fitting for a good carry off.
Mise-en-scene: switching places in periods of time, reflecting different periods, prison, flower drug power, modern day, innocent and clean more professional and pharmacy suggesting pharmaceutical lifestyle. Shot in London following Daniel Craig down the road, contempory music, chilled, male protagonist, flaw of drugs and drug dealing.
Editing: drugs in what looks like a pharmacy storage room, into a pharmaxy. Shots fade into others. Diegetic music faded out and went white, went to show a car shot. Goes into another shot lots of people contrast of people lower class and professional dealers.

1 comment:

clhcns said...

You have included some good details and observations about technical spects of Layer Cake - but you need to write in a more analytical way and explain effects.