Friday 15 January 2010

The Dark Knight

How does it follow generic conventions? micro and macro elements.
Fast paced at the beginning with the animation to represent the comic book theme.
Lots of different shots and angles to create a faced paced sequence.
Tense music score builds suspense.
Costume; Masks (creates suspense which adds to the characters mystery elements)
There is a protagonist (the man working in the bank) and a antagonist (the joker and his minions)
Sticks to the conventions of a thriller film by having a crime. The crime in this sequence is a bank robbery and murder.
Genres - hybrid; thriller, action, romance, adventure and fantasy.

How does it make you feel? - How does it achieve this? (techniques)
The fact that you can not see there faces and the fact you can not see there mouths move through their masks. This makes us feel on edge and vulnerable as an audience and at the same time it draws us in as we are curious to find out the identity of the characters.
The musical score gradually builds tension within the audience with the use of the slow and eerie backing noise but with a fast paced ticking sound which is reminiscent of a bomb which builds the tensions and links to the action genre of film.
The use of impersonal camera angles denies the audience identification with the villainous characters which creates a sense of mystery and a need to find out who the characters are.

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