Kiss Me Deadly

Camera Work/Angles

Kiss me deadly is a fairly old film and as you can see from the screenshots its in black and white. There are a variety of shots in this opening sequence which makes the viewers need to be switched on. The first shot is of a tracking close-up shot of the women's legs from when she is running, and due to the high angle it gives her a low status and we want to know why is she running. There's a long shot of her running towards the audience, so she gets bigger every step. Due to these shots, we know that the film is in a 3rd person perspective because we are watching both characters from an angle and not any point of view shots.

Mise-En Scene

The whole mise-en scene and the composition of each shot is really well set out due to the art director. Each shot looks like a painting you could put up on a wall, so it shows how well thought out they have been. The scenery as you can see above is a deserted road with a lot of small bushes and shrubs to show people don't live around this road. The car this 'heroic' man has is a very old car, but back then it was one of the newest and the car is white, this could be to show heroines or to show he's a wealthy man because he also has nice clothing. The establishing shot proves that this women is running in the middle of no where and is only in a jacket and nothing else, so why?

Editing

Due to the fact that this is an older film, technology wasn't developed as much as it is now, so editing was not a huge part of some films. Although, this film does use a few editing techniques to make it look as effective as possible. First of all, this film is known as a 'filmnoir' which means a investigation genre from the French because they loved these types of movies. So when creating this movie they decided to put it in black and white because it creates that creepy mood. There are no transitions used between a shot they are just straight cuts, used really well. Finally the titles and credits came down from an angle and are backwards, so we think why did they do this? Maybe because its the end of the film and they are making it backwards.

Sound

Sound is used a lot in this opening sequence and has been done very well. At the start there is calm music, but every time it cuts to a shot with the women running down the road, this tense, unsettling music comes on that makes you think she is running away from someone. Also the car skids really loudly out of control and the noise emphasises that he didn't want to stop, he had to. The women is constantly sobbing throughout the opening sequence, even when the titles are being shown, this may be because the director wants the viewers to feel unsettled on why is she sobbing so much.