24 Essay Extract

     In every movie, the director’s role is to express their vision. The director wants to make every single person watching have a special emotion to their film. The person who created the film, 24 wants to convey to the audience that during stressful moments filled with tension, people will react differently, especially aggressively. Sometimes, when angered people do things they do not mean which results in negative actions. Throughout this extract the director includes the emotion of suspense and now I will go in deeper and explain how camera angles, movements, music, sounds, and Mis En Scene will be used in this film.
     In the first scene of film 24, it starts in the location of a interrogation room, in this room there is low/dim lighting. The reason for this the dramatic lighting is to give a sense of mystery as to what is going on in the film or scene. During the first scene there is no sense of dialogue to create curiosity. The beginning scenes introduce the two main characters in the extract, the women that is being interrogated and a man who has authority. The actors is important for a film because its all depending who they are and how they will act making the film interesting to the audience. The women actor is making it seem like she doesn't care, she also seems like she really doesn't know how to act under the pressure of being interrogated. Man actor seems to get aggravated more and more by her responses. Next in the topic of sound, is dialogue. There is no dialogue within the first minute of the extract. I think the reason why the director does this is to first establish what will be going on in this part of the film, like a women is about to be questioned and the man is setting up preparing to speak with her. The woman begins to talk, she has a demanding tone asking him to take her some place so she can set off the bomb. He does not think her idea is the right choice because he claims she is not credible enough yet. Lastly, there is two shot in the beginning scenes. Two shot of the man and woman representing they are the most important people during that time of the film. The actor wants to express the relationship between the two people, in my opinion I think the man worked with the women before but she ended up being a liar and put herself in a bad position.
      Now to break apart the second half of the extract I want to discuss the incidental music. The music played in the background really enhanced the atmosphere of the characters in the film, what they were doing, and where they were. The reason for the suspenseful music they included was to give the audience an understanding of what was taking place and what was about to happen, overtime when someone spoke the music became more dramatic to add more of the suspense the director wanted to build. Next we have a type movement the director included which is a wide shot. The reason why the director wanted to include a wide shot and a wide angle between the two characters was to show everything that was going on, to show the full view. They want everything to fit in to show all the details like the chair, the table, the camera, and the door. The director also included multiple editing factors, one that really caught my eye was the split screen. Once the man started getting aggravated with the women’s responses he really held back from putting hands on her because he knew he had eyes on him watching his every move. The man soon became aggressive and started choking the women because he was so angry. The split screen appears of the people watching him running to the interrogation room to take him off her because they need her for information. The purpose for the split screen was to create suspense and to see what is happening on either sides. The last form of editing I want to talk about is jump cut. The director included multiple jumpsuits throughout the whole extract, the reason behind this was to make the audience eager to what was going to happen next. The jump cuts went from the man, to the woman, to the people watching them and back to show what the film was focusing on in that point in time of the extract. Suspense was the main emotion the director wanted to convey throughout the film.
    Overall, the director included multiple factors of editing, camera shots and movements, sound, and Mis En Scene which helped establish want he/she wanted to convey. They wanted to show how people don't act correctly under pressure and how people don't know how to act when they are angered, either way it will result into something negative. The director of the film 24, included so many more methods of these things but the mainly wanted to express suspense in this extract and with the power of filming, editing, sounds, and Mis En Scene it worked flawlessly.