(Task - 2.1) Movie Analysis Opening Sequence - Sin City

Sin City

Sin City is a Neo Noir style thriller and the story is from a graphic novel also called Sin City. The film is in black and white but there is some key colours. In the opening scene the key colour is red and the woman in the scene is wearing a red dress. This may symbolise death because red is associated with death and destruction but also with love and this could mean as well that the woman is the love interest in the film. The film is in black and white and this is convention of the Neo Noir style thriller and also this film is based on a graphic novel and the graphic novel is in black and white and this shows that they are also following the convention of the graphic novel as well. In the Opening scene there also is a voice over monologue, this is a typical convention of a Neo Noir style film. This voice over is diegetic because it has been place over the top of the normal noise and the actors are not supposed to hear it. In the film they use the typical 1950's american language, this is picked up from the line 'Care for a smoke' meaning do you want a cigarette.

Editing

The editing in this clip is slow because it is a just a conversation at the start and even towards the end of the scene when the guy shoots to woman the editing is slow. This shows that she wasn't a very good person because leading up to her death the editing was slow and usually when it is a good person being killed the editing speeds up to build tension.

Camera Angles

The opening shot is an establishing shots of a woman walking up to the edge of a balcony. Establishing and long shots are used throughout this scene, this is used to show where they are and what they are doing. This creates a good effect because it provides context for the scene and it shows a lot more of their surroundings meaning that you know where they are and what they are doing. There is also a lot of over the shoulder shots in this scene as well because most of the scene is a conversation between 2 people. this creates the effect that the 2 people are having a conversation. Also in this scene there is a match on action when the guys offers her a cigarette. This is to show the action clearly because most of the screen is take up by the back of the guy  because the shot before is an over the shoulder shot.

Narrative

At the start of the clip there is a woman stood on a balcony wearing a red dress. her dress is the only part of colour in the scene. This shows that she is at a party because of the post dress and the balcony of the building she is on. A guys starts waking up behind her and she turns are starts talking to him. they then have a conversation and he then offers her a cigarette and they smoking and carrying on with their conversation. Both of them in the scene look sophisticated because of the clothes that they are wearing. They then start kissing and hugging and the guys shoots her in the stomach. This shows that her red dress did symbolise death and then he holds her until she dies.