Independent Reaserch - Red eye opening sequence

Red eye (2005)

Tittle sequence: Very quick, no longer than 15 seconds, this maybe to settle the audiences brain as the movie in self will be just the same; quick and snappy. With the tittle in bold red this is really effective to make the tittle really stand out, also links in with tittle but not the film however, after watching the film I don't think it has real connection to the events other than the plain they go on is nick named "Red eye" as it is the latest flight. But because of the film and its nature the heroin is not able to feel tired as she has to much on her mind and has total energy the complete opposite to the tittle of "Red eye".

Shots and opening sequence order: We open up on a pan of happy photos, a complete contrast to the music which adds a tension, which gets us asking questions in our head, why is the music like that?
We then see a unknown person drop a wallet on the side, the camera zooms in to the initials, we now know as the audience they will be important later on in the movie.
The next sequence opens up with a repeat of the Pan of the surroundings, from this shot we are drawn to a large box in the middle of the screen, just like the zoom in the on initials the camera zooms in on the box, just as before we know this box is of great importance.
The next sequence is a shot of a table as the camera pans along, and close ups on different blue prints and pictures, with quick jumps cuts used and transactions to different shots. This sequence of shots is used to show the 'Villains' are very clever and a lot of planning has gone into it, so the organisation must be very big.
On the table we see the wallet again with the initials 'JR', it zooms once again we are seeing a pattern remaining, I feel this is a good idea as it helps the audience to identify important information.
We then cut to another sequence involving the box, we see inside the box a powerful weapon. The 'zoom' was correct.

The next sequence is with a young under pressure hotel employee, her emotions and the unhappy customers are shown via lots of close ups and a two shot for the customers. We then see a shot of our heroin as her phones rings, a mid-shot is used. It is the Young hotel lady calling for help, during the phone call we see our heroin is multi tasking and via lots of jump cuts back and forth and close ups on our confident heroin we see she copes well under pressure. Will she cope well when she comes into contact with the 'villain' ?
Even though this is only a phone conversation the director keeps its fast and tense by using lots of close ups and quick transitions form the cab where our heroin is and the hotel desk, this helps to build the climax to the soon to be battle between our heroin and 'villain'.
It is also very ironic that the phone conversation is used as an example to show how she copes under pressure as later on in the movie she comes under pressure twice more when on the phone and both times change the course of the movie.


Sound: The music Throughout is fast and mimics the sound of a heart beat, this helps to add to the scene and makes it more exciting and tense. Also lots of natural sounds are used, such as: rain, cars, manic people at the airport and mobile phones.The diegetic sounds which are used really well to create a panicky fast atmosphere, also all the sounds off the plain are like our our heroins life manic and always busy as we know from the phone conversation and later on in the movie she is a workaholic. However the sound when she gets on the plane later its all gone, she has none of that busy life style to worry about just the 'villain'.

Movement: Fixed and steady. Helps to capture all the action going on, instead of using complex movement which would distract the audience from what is going on on the screen.

Mise-en-scene: Everything about our heroin's appearence is perfect, she is dressed to perfection, which is the complete opposite to the film. The contrats between the character and the sotuation she is put in is interesting to watch.