Saturday 31 October 2015

Before Sunset



This opening scene in Before Sunset starts of with somebody saying “We just have a time for one last question”, and this was said by an old man dressed in a formal blazer and shot using a medium shot. The hundreds of books behind him suggest that this scene is set in a library or a book store. The next words said was “Where is your next book?” . This was said by a young man, also in a blazer and smart shirt, wearing glasses. This shot uses a medium shot and also denotes several people next to him and behind him. This group of people suggests that there is interview taking place. At this point we aren’t shown the interviewees face – making the audience curious to what he looks like. His accident also tells that audience he is from France which could hint that the movie will contain love and romance because France connotes the ‘City of Love’ and romance.

The interview suggests he is one of the main characters in Before Sunset. After the young French male asked his question, the interviewee then goes on about his next book. A medium shot is used to show the interviewee sitting on the desk and talking about his book. The lighting in this scene is bright and uplifting indication that this movie is not a horror or action film, bur most like a romance film. The colours in this scene also denote a lot of red – from the table cloth, books and the wine glasses on the right. The colour red connotes love and roses however it can also connote death, blood and violence in some circumstances. We can tell the movie will note contain death, blood and violence scenes because the lighting of the scene points towards a brighter and more romantic film rather than a barker and violent film.

During this interview, you can also faintly hear the rumbling and screeching sound of the cars outside. This ambient dietetic sound is effective because it’s so quiet you can hardly hear it, but still there to give the impression that you are there in the scene with them.
To make this interview less boring, it has been edited to show several shots throughout the interview of different things, keeping the audience interested. One of the shots was a medium/close up shot of the French man who asked the question. This shot was used to show his facial expression because he seemed very interested by the interviewee’s speech on a new book. Another shot included an over the shoulder shot of the interviewee speaking to lots of people about his book.

About a minute into the film we are then shown an over the shoulder shot of the interview when he was a young teenager with a girl, dancing and smiling. Then an over the shoulder shot if the girl. This indicates to the audience that he is part of the romance in this film – along with the girl. In these two shots we can only hear the voice over of the interviewee as he’s still talking about his book. Later on another shot of the two young teenage couple is shown then a medium/close up shot after of the young girl, now a young adult, at the man’s book interview. The shot after this is a medium shot of the man sitting on the chair. He turns round and sees her – seeming shocked. Then it cuts back to the lady who is now smiling and these sequences of shots indicate that she is the love interest and they are the romantic couple in the film.

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