Tea extract practice essay

The theme of the overall extract is mainly about a man who is trying to stop a bomb. But, in order for that to happen he has to get information from a lady that he is interrogating that is currently in custody. The deal is that is she helps stop the bomb she will be pardoned of her crimes. But instead of just willingly giving up any evidence she knows she’s starts to toy with the man that is interrogating her, knowing that she is making him upset. The reason it is making him upset is because if he lays a hand on her he will be off the case. I think that the many elements and camera angles that were used was the emulate the stress from the lack of time he and his colleagues.

The dark lighting Mis en scene play a role. It was used through the interrogation room scene as well as the camera room scene this is supposed to help convey the anxious melodramatic feeling that they are trying to convey to the audience. Another factor in Mis en scene was, the setting of the scene, the interrogation room. I feel like the interrogation room does really well at correlating with the seriousness of the scene because that is where she was being questioned. You could also sense the seriousness in the props that that were used, like the door and the files he gave her. His angry or violent gesture towards those modern object shows that he isn’t really here to for a regular conversation.

The non-diegetic sound played throughout the whole scene of him interrogating her and the people in the watching them through the cameras. This helped keep the mysterious factor of it all because, instead of just using background music that was up-tempo, they stuck with a calm steady tempo that still keeps you on the edge as watched the people in room watch and wait to see what man was going to do. Or and the tension starts to build in the interrogating room. The sound mix is used when the people watching the camera in the other room realize that the man attacked the women. This was meant to show all the multiple sounds going on at once as a display of the chaos that is currently unfolding.

The over shoulder shot was used throughout this whole extract, when it showed the man and woman were talking. The constant over the shoulder shots each scene, was used to show that it was more confrontational than an actual conversation. The camera zoom, I think was the most essential part of getting across the theme. The reason for that is because, the camera mainly zoomed in on the clock, their faces, the folder with the files in it, and the camera. When they zoomed in on the clock, it was to show the lack of time that they have. Zooming in on their faces was an attempt to show their current emotion, zooming in on the camera was to just hint at fact that someone is watching him, and since the files had something to do with the evidence she knew about, it zoomed in on to show importance.

Lastly, the split screen was used around the time when the man in the interrogation had first attacked the woman. This was cleverly used alongside the sound mix to show how the people watching the camera that was in the interrogating room responded to what was going versus how the man was responded. The shot reverse shot was used a lot throughout their conservation. Like the over shoulder shot, based on the speed the camera was going at, it showed the obvious tension that was there while having this conversation.