Evaluation question 1: Cinematography

The first thing that our film starts with is our production name followed by the film title.

There is no score music playing in this scene. The sound effect of birds tweeting fades in as Titles roll in.

Our title stood out as it was written in a big font with white text on a black background.

We used a wide shot to show the protagonist sitting down and then being joined by another shady looking character.

There is diegetic sound of birds in the background which connotes to the audience that the scene is calm and there is nothing much happening out of the ordinary at the moment.

The next shot is another wide shot which shows a ball being kicked at our protagonist. The other character in the scene is on his phone. And both their bags are exactly the same.

The diegetic sounds of birds and the trees maintain the idea that they are in a calm environment. This is our attempt at following Todorov’s theory of equilibrium.

This is the same shot as the previous one and we see the secondary character pick up the wrong bag and walk off. The protagonist is distracted by the ball that was kicked at him so he isn’t able to react.

In the next shot we once again used a wide shot to show the protagonist is alone. During this scene the protagonist looks at his phone checking the time and then decides to walk off.

The next show which we used is a medium shot and it is used for continuity to show the protagonist walking away.

A wide shot is used to show the protagonist enter his house still oblivious to the fact that he is holding the wrong bag in his hand.

An close up is used to show the protagonist putting his flip flops on in his house. This shows that he is an average person living out his daily life and there is nothing for the audience to be sceptical about.

A medium close up is used to show the protagonist putting away his jacket and headphones.

In this scene we start adding in quiet tense music to build tension in this scene as we as the audience know that he has the wrong bag and we want to find out what is in the bag.

A high angle wide shot shows the hallway of the protagonist and we can also see that the protagonist is entering his living room with the wrong bag which he picked up.

A worms eye view is used to show the bag being placed on the table. This is leading up to the scene where the protagonist opens the bag. This has been done to create further suspense and tension.

A medium close up is used to show the protagonist opening the bag in order to bring out some books so that he can do his work. However the audience know that the bag which he is opening isn’t his.

A close up is used to show the shock on the protagonists face as he realises that the bag has a brick of cocaine inside it.

In this scene the music starts to progressively get louder and it makes the scene more tense.

In this scene we see the protagonist holding his face wondering what to do. This is shown by a medium close up and a series of jump cuts remaining in the same position show the protagonist wondering what to do.

A wide shot shows the protagonist reacting to the ringtone which is coming from inside the bag. He gets up to answer the phone.

From inside the bag a diegetic sound is used to show that a ringtone is playing from inside the bag. It is not an iPhone ringtone but a classical ringtone which tells the audience that it is a cheap old phone.

An extreme close up is used to show the phone which the protagonist picked up from inside the bag. On the screen of the phone we see someone is calling using a private number.

A medium close up is used to show the protagonist answering the phone. A deep voice tells the protagonist to meet him in an alleyway behind his house. And then ends the call abruptly without letting the protagonist speak.

A wide shot was used in this scene to show the protagonist’s conscious’ talking to him. The left one is telling him to deliver the drugs and one of them is telling him to call the police.

A wide shot is used to show the protagonist reacting to the police cars who are stopping outside his house. In this shot the audience see the protagonist panicking and running out of the living room with the bag of drugs in his hand.

Diegetic sound is used for the police sirens and also the noise of car skidding as it parks. This adds an effect to the scene that the protagonist is in trouble.

A medium close up is used to show the protagonist running upstairs to hide the drugs.

Throughout this scene non-diegetic score music is playing to make the scene more tense and add suspense to the scene. Also there is diegetic sound when the policeman bangs on the door.

A medium close up is used in this scene to show the protagonist hide the drugs under his bed.

The non-diegetic score music in this scene gets even more intense creating more and more tension.

A POV shot is used to show the protagonist getting chased by a policeman.

Shot reverse shot is used to show the conversation between the protagonist and the interrogator.

Using a close up we pan the camera from the face of the protagonist down to the bag of cocaine which reveals to the protagonist that there is something more than just drugs in the bag. However the audience don’t get to see what is inside the bag ending the 5 minute film with a cliff-hanger.