Film notes

Once upon a time in the west.
1968 Sergio Leone
How atmosphere is created in the sequence.

• Creaking door, Long slow drawn out sound
• Slow camera movement
• Slow stepping noise, all the slowness builds up tension as the audience is waiting for something to happen.
• Focuses on smaller element, like the fly around the mans head.
• The main characters don't say anything, this makes them seem more menacing.
• Constant squeaking of the windmill in the background, lots of whistling and creaking sounds.
• Isolation, the area is desolate and the characters all stay far away from one another.
• The shot last a long while but have sudden breaks when something fast and unexpected happens, like catching the fly in the gun.
• The pace of the titles matches the pace of the sequence, the titles move with the characters.
• Everything that you know about the characters comes their actions while they're waiting, like one of the men cracking his knuckles and another collecting water in his hat.

Catch me if you can
2004
What information the sequence gives about the film to follow.

• Shows a plane, implies alot of travel.
• Alot of women appear in the sequence, all glamorous. When the women first appear in the sequence the music changes slightly to something more suave and like lounge music.
• Very simple colour. Each scene has black and one other colour. The colour changes represent the different season (light blues for winter, orangey yellow for summer etc.) This implies that the film spans over a long period of time.
• All the women in the opening show the main character to be a womanizer, as he is in an elevator with a woman and seems about to kiss her.
• There is constant movement of one character in the whole thing where most of whats around them stays still.
• One of the characters stays the same but the other keeps changing outfits,implying deception.
• The character who is changing is followed by the other constant character,showing a long chase,it shows them at different distances implying that at times he is close to being caught but has so far managed to keep running
• Titles reflect movements of the images

Rat catcher
Social realism, 1999, Lynne Ramsay

• Slow movement, slightly skippy, No music builds tension in finding out what is inside the spinning cloth.
• Voyeurism, the boy is watching another boy playing outside. He is watching other children play instead of playing himself.
• Lower/middle class.
• Dark grey lighting, natural grey skies, depressing british weather.
• Slightly sinister side, as at the beginning it seems as if the person is hanging, this shows the surrealist side to th film.

Killer of sheep
1977 Charles burnett

• Strange old fashion style music.
• The father can't be seen on screen for a while, close up of the boy, he shows no emotion and no change in his emotion throughout the scene.
• Still no change in emotion even when the boy gets slapped.
  
• Black and white
• The music is mainly in title parts, ost of the filmed parts are diagetic.
• Documentary style, people even look at the camera, also the changes from shot types,and the way you feel like you're just observing.
• Sound is also documentary style, as the volume of the people's voices is determined by how close to the camera they are

American splendor
2004 Stari Springerberman

• Comics sans-esque typeface, the sort of text that is used for comic books, looks almost hand drawn.
• The film is narrated like a comic with text in the corner in a small box.
• The opening is done with comic panels to show the different shots.
• The shots switch from drawing to film shows.
• The main character starts narrating his life.
• The camera follows the comic strip as if you're reading it
• Drama with elements of comedy