Brick (Johnson, 2005, US)

Brick (Johnson, 2005, US)

Cinematography
The use of low shots make it hard for us to gain great detail, this includes hiding the face of the man during the beginning, this makes the audience ask questions, who is he? What has he done and why can’t we see his face?

A focus pull has been used. As well as an establishing shot, which still hides the man’s face, after all the other close ups, this is not normal because this will normally be in the beginning before any shots to show you where the actors are and where they are all placed. This makes us ask questions about what don’t they want us to see?

There is a use of crabbing and tracking, crabbing was used while focusing on the man’s shoes, tracking was used when focusing on the girls bands, this showed us that these bands will be important during the rest of the film because the bands are a way to identify that character.

Sound
The non-diegetic music at the start makes the audience feel hope, sadness and realisation due to the high pitched guitars and bells ringing. They have also used diegetic sounds of footsteps when at the school/collage.

Editing
The durations of the sequence are quite long which gives the audience enough time to take in all the details as well as ask some questions about the actors.