When we are introduced to the character at the begin and we start to see him running the camera is positioned in such away that we get a good shot of his face. The camera is positioned so when the man runs past we get a close up of his face. This enables the audience to see the distress in the man's face and helps us understand that he is in fear of whoever is chasing him. We also see a track shot of the man running down the corridor.Whilst the man is running away we then see a shot from the chasers perspective. The camera shot is a over the shoulder shot of the chaser and in this shot it draws attention to the fact that he is holding a gun, this tells us that he is chasing him with the intention of harming him.
Once the man has fallen over we then see the two characters levels of power. To portray the two levels of power they use a low angle shot on the chaser to make him look powerful and a high angle show of the man fallen over to show weakness and vulnerably. There is also a two-shot of the characters where it is from a low angle shot from behind the fallen man again to express his vulnerably.
When it moves to the next scene the symbol convention, it starts off with an establishing shot. In the establishing shot we can see the whole room including audience, a large screen and a man walking in with a spotlight marking him. From this we know what they are doing (a convention) and that there will be focus on the character marked by spotlight. We also see in this shot a close up of the screen where we see some word containing information on the character, from this we pick up information like that the man is a 'Professor of Religious Symbology'
Editing
When the film first starts and moves on from the title scenes to the actual scene it starts off with very quick cutting shots. We see a man running down a corridor and the fast cutting rates give the impression as well as other things that he is running away from somebody, and in one of the shots we see a shadow in the background so we know he's being chased.
The next significant use of editing in this scene is once the man has fallen over. The camera cuts between the two faces to focus on both of their feelings. By constantly cutting between the two characters face we can see what they are feeling and how they are reacting during the conflict.
Mise en scenes
The first scene when we see the man running down the corridor we see a few close up shots of the painting in background. The paintings along with the overall setting have a very classical gothic and somewhat religious theme about them, also the chorridor is very dark also setting the gothic theme. This scenery alround gives off a fairly spooky impression. The camera seems to focus on the portraits eyes as if the man being chased is being constantly watched and cannot escape from their locking gaze.
The clothes which the characters are wearing in the scene tell us alot about the characters. The first chracter that we are introduced to is wearing a smart suit telling us that he is most probably in some kind of position of power. The man chasing him wears a religious robe. At first he has a hood on concealing his face this gives him more of a mysterious persona. Also we know from what he is wearing, that he is representing some kind of religious cult, this short scene foreshadows and clearly lays out the story of the whole film. There are secrets of religion that the religious hierarchy would rather we didn't know.
Sound
The music starts right at beginining during the title sequence but very slowly and then it starts speeding up throughout the credits to the movie title it which the song climaxes. It then moves on the character running down the corridor where it changes to a more intense scary song. Also as he is running away we can hear nothing but his footsteps and the music telling us that he somewhere quiet and there maybe no help available. The character then removes a painting to activate the security gate and we hear a beeping sound to notify us that he has activated the gate.
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