Layer Cake (Vaughn, 2004)
Sound
- The use of a voice over being used on top of a montage gives the audience a good brief history of the topic of the movie, aswell as the motives/ideologies of the main character.
Editing
- I also like in this scene the editing technique where an image that is present in two separate clips is used to transition the two together, seen here firstly when the woman cowering behind the car has her hair merged into the hair of the hippie in the second clip. Another editing technique I enjoyed was when the voice over matched the movement of lips in the video when the narrator says 'Work it out mate...we're in the wrong f****** game'.
Mise-En-Scene
- In the final scene of the opening 2 minutes we see Danie Craig walking around a very modern, clean, white, hospital-looking establishment, which embodies his beliefs that he see's drugs as a business and a commodity to sell rather than as a recreational tool.
Camera
- Vaughn predominantly uses tracking shots in this opening and in reality the whole thing is made to look like one long tracking shot due to the very subtle transitions used. There is a vast range of shots used but various angles are scarce as the whole thing is pretty much shot at a flat, eye level.
Things in this I would like to be present in our work
- A voice over
- Narrators voice matching with the lips of another character
- Main characters beliefs to come across
- Transitioning into another clip subtly so the whole opening scene 'flows'
I like the editing technique of the transition between the woman's hair and the man's hair.
ReplyDeletei think this is a good technique we could look to put in our film.