Quadrophenia deconstruction notes.

Fade in from black to a long shot of two men walking over a hill against the sunset, the men are in silhouette against the sunset, this therefore creates enigma as we cannot see who they are. There is mysterious music in the background, diagetic sounds of the sea, non diagetic sounds of birds.

The music fades in quickly and then fades back out again. We hear more diagetic sounds of leaves crunching. Through out all of this there is shill the long shot of the men still walking. Then there is a close up of the sunset. Then the footage cuts into one of the men riding a motorbike, there is upbeat rock music. The titles zoom in over the footage, titles are in yellow writing to stand out against the action. Titles are fast fast paced to fit with the action of the man on the motorbike and the past pace of the music. Voice over the music from the main character over music which is slightly faded down in order for the voice over to be heard. Music fades out with a black fade out. This is an effective film opening as the upbeat music is effective as it creates an excited feel to the opening. Another effective aspect is how the characters has been established, through out the opening sequence we can clearly see who the main character is as he is presented whilst the titles are being show and he is in the main focus through the sequel. One aspect for improvement would be to show more characters to create further enigma.

Snatch deconstruction.

Firstly we see the titles appearing against a black background, this therefore is used to make the writing stand out. There is a voice over from one of the characters who is telling the audience about past events. Whilst this is happening there are more titles over the footage, this writing is white backed on black, this is used in order for the audience to read the writing. There are tracking shots of Jewish men waling along corridors. The shots cut from tracking shots to shots of CCTV monitors that are showing footage of the men walking through the corridors. There is music played in the background, this music is what we would stereotypically associate with Jewish people. We then see many jump cuts to fit with the action of the scene, we also see some of the cuts are spun around to fit reinforce the idea that the action is unpredictable. As the men rip of their costumes and pull out many different guns. There is fast upbeat electro music to fit the action. When there is a piece of action that is fast paced the footage speeds up on purpose to create a tense and edgy feeling for the audience. We then see a short clip of each of the characters doing something that is significant to there personality. Each of the short clips turn into freeze frames and the characters name and the actors names appear in white against the colour background in the still shot. On one of the still shots is of a man looking at a book, when the footage starts playing again the man looks into the book and the camera spirals into the middle of the front cover where the picture of the next shot is. Once the camera has set onto the next shot the film carries on. The next piece of editing is of a diamond, this is done by using the reflections of a character in the diamond, next there is a zoom onto the diamond and onto the reflection and then onto the next shot. From this opening scene of the film we can detect that the genre of the film is a action film. This is a effective film opening as it creates enigma and is action filled leaving the audience wanting to watch more.