Textual Analysis

Rock ‘N’ Rolla 

Action-Thriller

 

Generic conventions

• Drugs
• Sex
• Guns
• Alcohol
• Dark room
• Weapon focus

 

The conventions used here are the visual use of drugs and what appears to be a gun in which the camera focus’s on there fore pulling your attention in. It later appears to be a lighter though therefore mixing your views. The dark room with a single light source is also a convention as it there to create an air of mystery and engagement with the audience.

 

Lighting

• Dull
• One single light source in the centre of the screen

 

The single light source used in the shot is there to create an outline of the main character and therefore not showing him in detail so that the mystery element is kept in tact.

 

Sound

• Voice over
• Lighter
• Women and man in cubical
• Shot glass hitting table

 

The sound used is very simple, it begins with a voice over which continues to the end of the shot with music playing in the background which picks up volume when the man stops talking. The only other sound used is the lighter coming on, the shot glass hitting the bar and the man and women in the pub cubical having sex which last for only a second. A very quick and possibly unnoticeable element in the film, one that I did not pick up on till the second time round.

 

Editing

• Quick cuts between shots
• 4 shot’s in total
• One long shot to start with the camera pushing in on the character

 

The camera angles were simple, one long push and then an eye level and high angle shot all with cuts in between. The total number of shots used were 4, with the first being a extreme long shot moving into a close up through the act of pushing and the other three being simple one second long shots that only appear to flash up onto the screen.

 

 

Silent Hill

Horror-Thriller

 

 

Generic Conventions

• Dark woods
• Tunnel
• Graffiti
• Midnight
• Fire
• Foot steps
• Dark black eyes
• Christian Cross
• Girls teddy bear

 

The generic convention here is the fire that symbol’s hell and danger. The woman in the dark woods also gives you a sense of mystery and danger in which you are engaged. The young girl stood on the hill with the cross in the distance also creates an unusual sense, as she appears to be in some kind of trance.

 

Lighting

• Dark
• Lit by headlights
• The outside of the cross lit by fire

 

The lighting used in this part of film is simple as it only uses headlights from cars and fire to light the stage. The fire is seen around the edge of the cross and in the pit. All together though these elements create a tense atmosphere for the viewer.

 

Sound

• Cars
• Women calling out
• Foot steps
• Forest noise e.g. Crickets, frogs
• Running stream and waterfall
• Girl screaming
• Music played on top
• Fire

 

The sound used here is key as the women calling out for her child is what sets your emotions in play, the noise of cars going above her head on the bridge also add effect as at that point you have already seen the girls teddy bear but have not yet discovered the girl leaving you with a thought of death or injury. Once the music plays it adds effect as it builds up in volume and intensity. To the final part which ends with the girl screaming aloud in what appears to be a trance saying just one set of words over and over “Silent Hill”.

 

 

 

 

Editing

• Cuts
• Long shot
• High angle
• Birds eye view
• Push in
• Tracking
• Panning

 

The editing used is very complex as it adds many kinds of shots over and over, it also plays on your mind as it continues to move and at many points cutting the person out of view from the shot, and to finally find them again in the next shot but generally on the other side of the screen. 

 

Shoot Em” Up

Action-Thriller

 

Generic conventions

• Gun
• Knife
• Dark street
• Lamp lit
• Dark alley

 

The generic conventions in the first few minutes here are traditional ones, an example could be the gun and knife which both appear within seconds of each other setting for you an already intense atmosphere.

 

Lighting

• Street Lamp
• Headlights

 

The area is lit by a single street lamp, with car head lights for a moment. All together this gives a tense and mysterious atmosphere for the viewer.

 

Sound

• Breathing
• Crunching of a carrot
• Car skidding
• Women crying
• Man sighing
• Gun being loaded
• Man talking

 

The sound used is mostly diagetic sound, with only one of bit of sound being non-diagetic which is the car skidding and crashing as you do not actually see the accident happen. The other noise from the women crying to the general street noise is there to give you a sense of pain and general hard ship, with a strong contrast the sound of a carrot being munched upon.

 

Editing

• Quick simple cuts
• Extreme close up
• Close up
• Long shot
• Low angle shot
• Mid shot

 

The editing is used is simple and clean, it starts with an extreme close up of the characters eye’s therefore setting you with the motion that he is most likely the main character involved in the film. It then moves to a close up through cut at which point the carrot is seen on the scene therefore setting you with unusual and strange emotions towards the character. The long shot which sets the scene is also the main shot as it sets the other two characters, the pregnant women who is stumbling down the street and the aggressive man who later in a mid shot pulls a weapon out.