History of violence

History Of Violence

The History of violence is a 2005 american thriller directed by David Cronenberg. The film is about a man who runs a bar and it gets robbed by two thief's. In self defense the man killed them to keep him and his family safe. However this leads his violent history to strike back at him.

This is the director of the film, he was born March 15th 1943 and is aged 41. He is most interested in science fiction films and horrors.

                                                                                    

Camera Analysis  

During the opening scene theirs only two shots in the first three minutes, the theme of the setting is in the western. Through out the opening scene, it is steady cam, this is a slow start. When the man gets out of the car leaves a tracking shot of him walking in the motel. A girl come out and shows a low angle shot to show she is powerless. There is then a close up on the gun, to show tension and something dangerous is going to happen.    

Editing
During the opening scene the editing is really slow, later it starts to get more dramatic and editing starts to get quicker. Their was about 11 or 12 cuts in total in the opening scene.

Sound
- sound in background /Digetic
- sound of radio / Diegtic
- sound o the track music /Digetic
- sound of the car door / Dialog
- sound of the bell /Digetic
- sound of fridge door /Digetic
- sound of water /Digetic
- sound of girl scared /Dialog
- sound of gun shot /Dialog

Mise en scene
At the start of the scene, it takes place out side of a motel, theirs two male actors, one using a car and one packing, during the scene we see outside the motel and then inside where we see a little girl little. This is when the gun is used to kill her. We then see a next scene where it takes place in a cafe. where the two male actors enter. In the cafe there are props like drinks, table chairs and bar.

Unknown

Unknown 

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no on, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman. he sets out to prove who he is.  

The director of the film is called Jaume Collet-Serra, he was born march 1974 in Spain and has directed many films such as Orphan, Unknown and Non-stop. 




The main actors of the film are Liam Nelson, Diane Kruger, and January Jones. Liam Nelson was born June 1952, Ballymena. Has stared in films such as Taken 1 and 2, Non-stop, Unknown and more.




The film made around $120,00,000 gross profit world wide, the budget was $30,000,000 estimated, so it made a huge profit.  

During the film it excites the audience and makes them thrilled and wanting to watch it for longer. throughout the film there is always tension. An example of this is the hospital scene.

The Hospital Scene 
In this scene its very tense, exciting and life threatening. If Martin Harris (Liam Nelson) does not reach the scissors, he will be murdered. The sound track and fast editing leading to his escape. The camera uses close up to show how important that object is and the audience to focus on it. The editing is fast to show tension, playing digetic music to show the audience something bad is happening and to build tension.    

The Car Chase

At the start of the scene, tension builds up slows with editing speed starting to get faster and faster, when the car crashes and spins, the chase starts. Speed editing is really fast, and sound musics starts to play to attract the audience and keep them thrilled. There are many shots used to keep the audience thrilled and not bored, the faster the editing and more shots, the more thrilled and interested the audience is. At the end of the scene, both cars battle it out and creates tension when one of the cars are about to crash into a tram but luckily escape.

The Birds

The birds

This is a thriller what Alfred Hitchcock directed in 1963. The writer of the film is called Daphne Du Maurier and Evan Hunter did the screen play. The stars of the film are called Rod Taylor, Tippi Hendren and Suzanne Pleshette.

Thriller conventions

In birds, instead of having a villain, the external threat is nature what is the birds. In a scene in the film, mitch's mother goes into the farmers house and finds it to be very quiet with cups smashed in the kitchen, then she looks in his room where she finds the room torn apart and smashed windows with birds dead, in the angle of her eye she sees a foot with blood and finds the body without eyes. she leave the house with shock. This builds up tension because she has slowly entered the home and see a shocking event. This then makes the audience thrilled because nature is attacking because ?? no one knows why and it is very unusual. This makes the audience to watch and find out.

In this film, there is always suspense used extensively. An example of this is that in the film there no non-digetic sounding. all the sounds are nature, eg the sound of the birds.

Dramatic irony is used in the film. This is when character does not know what is happening but the audience does. An example of this is when, Tippi Hendren is out side the school on the bench, where she has no clue that the birds are gathering behind her, however we the audience know this.

Hitchcocks technique in the film  is that he uses nature as an external threat. An example of Hitchcocks technique is when at the school yard scene, you can hear the innocent childrens voices sing whilst you can see the nature of the birds gathering to attack. Throughout the whole film theres no non-digetic sound, just digetic sound of the birds its self. The wind and screeching show shock and horror to what the birds are doing.