Tuesday 4 November 2008

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS 'SEXY BEAST'

First of all in the opening sequence of the film you get a long shot of the sun. There is a voice over and a static imagine of the beaming sun. It then shows a medium shot of a man lying down on a sun bed extremely sunburnt whilst explaining in detail how hot he is feeling. There is then a MS of him, but in the background there is a young foreign boy sweeping by the pool which is a LS. It then uses shot reverse shot and shows a MCU of the man sunbathing sitting up in his sun bed. It then reverses back with a MCU of the foreign boys face. Then back Again to a MCU of the man sunbathing. Another shot reverse shot of the boy sweeping the pool with MCU and again switches to the man sunbathing with another medium close up. It then shows a LS of the man lying down on the sun bed. Then switches to a longer birds eye view, showing the man and the pool next to him which gives you a clearer picture of the surroundings and the luxuries this man has around him. You notice that he has custom made love hearts at the bottom of his pool emphasising his wealth and luxuries.
It then cuts to a woman driving in a car with the camera behind her head. CUTS TO extreme long shot of the scenery at the location where she is driving. CUTS TO CU of the man lying down on the sun bed once again and then slowly goes to a medium close up of him sitting up-right. The camera then tracks his movement as he bends down to pick up a cold wet flannel. He then orders the boy who is sweeping the pool to get him some beers. It then shows a long shot of the boy walking to get the beers on command, showing the high status of the man and at a click of a finger he can order people to Waite on him.

1 comment:

c_fernandez said...

Jack - this is very descriptive, rather than an analysis of what you have learnt from this exercise... what shots are predominant? Use of sound? text?