Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Walk on the Wild Side, 1962, Edward Dmytryts


Titles: The opening titles for this film are conventionally white against black, capitalised and in a serif font, this signifies the thriller genre as the titles are blocky and harsh, this is similar to the birds in which are also blocky and contrasts against its background.

Camera: The scene opens with a close up of the cat appearing from the pipe in which relates to the thriller genre as at first all the audience can see is the cats eyes in the dark creating an eary and mysterious mood. Through out the scene the cat is centralised and there are a series of high angles which signify the cats power.

Editing: The sequence is quite slow paced to build suspense as the audience tracks the cat this is reinforced by the dissolves between shots, however when the fight between the cats begin the pace speeds up, this signifies a thriller as there is usually violence in action thrillers.

Sound: There is a non-deigetic sound track through out the sequence, getting louder and high paced as the editing does. The music helps to keep the pace for this sequence, as the sequence ends the music slowly fades out as the imagery does.

Mise en scene: As the scene opens the audience is introduced to the black cat, walking down the street around pipes which could signify a construction zone or that the cat is stray and walking amongst the city scrap. The other cat introduced is a white cat which connotes a sense of good and evil, then the two cats fight which may signify a plot in this film being a fight against good and evil, which relates to the genre action thriller.

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