Past Students thrillers: The Catalyst

The Catalyst 




Mise en scene 
This scene is set in a deserted piece of land, full of grass, tress and nature. At the start, a character is dressed in a suit and uses a knife to pick the lock on a door to break in. At this point he goes into a room and removes a gun rifle from a bag. He then aims out the window using the scope and shoots. A man then gets shot and another runs away. The camera the follows the man who is running. The man then wears casual clothing and a flat hat. The man then gets in the car and notice the driver is dead. A man in the back seat then chokes the man and kills him. After he gets out the car he walks and it ends.

Camera
At the start of the filming,theirs a close up shot of the door, then straight after theirs a extreme close up on the door to show the man is pick locking it. This then makes the audience keep watching from thrill, with a man breaking in with a nice, making the audience think what happens next. As soon as he walks up the stairs theirs a high angle shot. starlight after, theirs a mid shot, this shows the audience a clear view of the thugs clothing. Theirs then a close up view on this mysterious gun.
Theirs then a point of view shot of what the thug can see. After theirs then a tracking shot of a man running. After this theirs many shots of the man running, after there's then a close up on the man strangling the man. when he left the car theirs a close up on a battery. 

Sound

Throughout the filming theirs non-digetic music to set a gloomy and tense mood to set tension. The tension thrills the audience and entertains them to carry on watching. Theirs also natural digetic sounding of the wind and atmosphere. Also theirs digetic sound use when the gun is shot and heavy breathe. 

Editing

throughout the filming theirs a total of 37 shots. The pace of the filming starts up slow, creating tension. But when the gun as fired, the pace of the editing got faster, this keeps the audience entertained and thrilled about whats just happened. Theirs also the use of eye-line match used when the thug looks at the target and the next scene shows us his point of view.