Mise-en-scene
Costume - The key actor is wearing a suit and tie throughout, with some scenes of him without his blazer jacket on but still wearing a smart shirt underneath. This is used to show him as a formal character playing a serious role as a detective, its effective in making the opening look official and professional as well as fitting the genre of a crime/ film noir. I liked the costume use as it reflects the style and genre of a black and white film noir, with the use of a black and white suit.
Lighting - The lighting used is varied dependent on the location, but it mainly used natural lighting such as from windows or daylight. The film noir genre iconicly plays with shadows and silhouettes to create atmosphere and is clearly taken into consideration in this opening. This is done with the black and white editing in mind to ensure that the scenes are well lit and not over or under lit, its effective in capturing the atmosphere of the scenes for example, the shot of the third victim at night, its lit enough to show the details of her body but have it focused on by surrounding her in pitch black darkness.
Actors - The key actor is a tall, male with a stone, tired face. He was a good choice of actor for the role as he embodies the character very well with the use of gesture and facial expression. I though he was especially good in the last scene where he confronts the suspect with the case file and pushes it towards him confrontationaly but staying calm and reserved, as he has done it a thousand times and has lots of experience in his line of worm.
Make-up - The opening uses make-up to make the crime scenes loot authentic, by the use of blood on the victims, as well as some facial make-up like the third victims dark red lipstick, this is effective as it is iconicly dates the to the late 1940s, when film noir was most popular, making the film look authentic.
Props - The opening uses no note-worthy props.
Sound - The non-diegetic music used is a mellow/blues type of music that you would hear iconicly in a smokey jazz club in the 1940s, and to set create a slow calm pace for the opening. The use of the old fashioned camera flash click is effective in dating the film to the late 1940s film noir time period. The opening also has the key character narrating along side the opening filling the audience in on the case and effectively setting the scene for the rest of the movie.
Editing
The film opening used a variety of editing techniques to fit the desired theme and pace of the opening. The opening uses basic cuts and fades to black to set the pace of the film, also in contrast of this they use a fast-paced montage of still pictures with a white camera flash between each of them, this is very effective in the theme of the crime scenes.
Lighting - The lighting used is varied dependent on the location, but it mainly used natural lighting such as from windows or daylight. The film noir genre iconicly plays with shadows and silhouettes to create atmosphere and is clearly taken into consideration in this opening. This is done with the black and white editing in mind to ensure that the scenes are well lit and not over or under lit, its effective in capturing the atmosphere of the scenes for example, the shot of the third victim at night, its lit enough to show the details of her body but have it focused on by surrounding her in pitch black darkness.
Actors - The key actor is a tall, male with a stone, tired face. He was a good choice of actor for the role as he embodies the character very well with the use of gesture and facial expression. I though he was especially good in the last scene where he confronts the suspect with the case file and pushes it towards him confrontationaly but staying calm and reserved, as he has done it a thousand times and has lots of experience in his line of worm.
Make-up - The opening uses make-up to make the crime scenes loot authentic, by the use of blood on the victims, as well as some facial make-up like the third victims dark red lipstick, this is effective as it is iconicly dates the to the late 1940s, when film noir was most popular, making the film look authentic.
Props - The opening uses no note-worthy props.
Sound - The non-diegetic music used is a mellow/blues type of music that you would hear iconicly in a smokey jazz club in the 1940s, and to set create a slow calm pace for the opening. The use of the old fashioned camera flash click is effective in dating the film to the late 1940s film noir time period. The opening also has the key character narrating along side the opening filling the audience in on the case and effectively setting the scene for the rest of the movie.
Editing
The film opening used a variety of editing techniques to fit the desired theme and pace of the opening. The opening uses basic cuts and fades to black to set the pace of the film, also in contrast of this they use a fast-paced montage of still pictures with a white camera flash between each of them, this is very effective in the theme of the crime scenes.
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