sin city directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez

SIN CITY

in the opening shot we have a centralised women in a red dress, long shot, she is skinny and wearing a backless dress this gives the impression that she is venerable and alone. to add to the verilisilitude and venerability of the character ambient sound of the city is added in as she looks out at the landscape, all this diagetic gives realism to the scene and being parallel sound makes the sequence flow much better. to crate a sense of familiarity and connect the audience with the characters close ups are used this is used in every film thriller, action every genre i think this technique that must be kept in my opening extract for my coursework.
The red is an symbolic signifier to love and death which instantly links to the narrative of the film addressing the audience, to establish a sense of genre the director has used slow paced edits this creates suspense iconic to a thriller film to get this slow effect the camera uses zooms and panning, this slows down the time of the individual shots and adds to the mood, straight cuts are the most dominate used cut as that it is a conversation which gives continuity to the sequence keeping with the pace of the extract, another common effect used in the thriller genre is low key lighting and sin city is one of the best examples to give that sinister cold light which just adds to the suspense in the film, a grate use of this lighting is binary opposition in the shot where we see the man looking at the woman talking about how he has watched her the light is dark on one side of his face and light on the other this signifies that he is not completely trusted and that dark side is one that can be dangerous and threat to the women.
Once the director has established a thriller genre he reinforces this with an iconic sign , the gun, this shows that this particular thriller is under the sub-genre named action thriller and the location also adds to the genre as that it is in a city where most action films are set such as "Die Hard" and "speed"