Friday, April 24, 2020

Extract Practice - 24


            The theme of the extract 24, is a crisis situation. A man is interrogating a woman who appears to be connected to the potential attack. He is trying to find out where the bomb is located. As well as trying to get information to stop it from detonating.
            In the beginning, the extract starts off in the first location where a woman is at. The interrogation room is used for the majority of the scenes where the woman is being held, to show that an urgent matter is taking placed since serious questions are being asked and need to be answered quickly in this location. Next, a zoom is used to get a close-up of the woman’s face who is being interrogated to show that she has something to do with the crisis and is important to the situation. Then, an eyeline match is used of the man looking over, which then cut to a shot of the camera in the room shows that he is making sure the interrogation is being recorded, and that the observers are watching. There is then a cutting of the shot showing the woman going to the shot of the man interrogating which manifests the intensity of the interrogation going on and how they are going back and forth.
            In the middle of the extract, the first thing shown is a two-shot. The two-shot is of the observers watching the interrogation on the monitors shows that something serious is going on and that many people are involved and needed. Then, a clock is used as a prop in the extract to help the director’s vision. The clock is used to point out what the woman was looking at to show that more and more time is going by until the crisis situation of the bomb detonating happens. After that, the dialogue begins in the scene. Dialogue is used between the man and woman in the interrogation room to show what is being talked about between them, which gives information on the crisis situation. The final thing displayed in the middle of the extract is a sound bridge. The sound bridge at the end of the scene with the two observers, leading into the scene with the man interrogating in the woman’s face shows how the two scenes are going on at the same time and how the observers are watching what is going on as it happens. The sound bridge carries over from one scene to the next in the middle of the extract.
            Towards the end of the extract, more is going on and happening more quickly. The hand and ankle cuffs were used on the woman to show that she was being held which also made the interrogation more serious since she was locked up. The woman being locked up emphasizes that she knows information on the potential attack and possibly how to stop the bomb from detonating. This helps the director get his/her vision across. Next, there is a split screen of the man choking the woman in the one screen, and the observer and security people running to the interrogation room in the other screen, which shows they can’t let him kill her since they need her for answers. After this, incidental music is used as the woman is being choked and the security is running towards the room to show that the scene is intense and something very serious and urgent is taking place. It adds on to the serious situation about the bomb that is going to be detonating. The last thing observed at the end of the extract was a long shot. The long shot of the man that was just choking the woman shows that he let go and stopped when the people came in and told him to stop. He was frustrated since he was getting answers from the woman about the bomb attack that was going to be happening soon.
            Overall, the director’s vision is that there is a crisis situation on and the actors need information on the bomb that is going to detonate in a short period of time. All of the camera angles, shots, movements, editing, sound, and mis en scene helps to show that this is the director’s vision. These intensify and make the scenes seem more urgent and show that a serious matter is taking place. The interrogation also shows that the woman is a key to finding information out about the potential attack, which is apart of the director’s vision.

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