Brick

BRICK 






The Opening sequence starts off with a faded in xylophone with a guitar followed with it. One moment especially the xylophone increases in sound when you get introduced to a man with a hidden face. Which builds up when the dead women is found on the floor.






The scene still uses the same instruments but when it gets to the end they use a sound bridge as the Music fades and then turns into a school bell.

You can see that the director purposely added mystery to this man to build tension with the scene as you never clearly see his face. This keeps the audience interested with the story as the camera shots puts questions into the audiences minds e.g. who this person?, what is he doing there? etc. But you see that he has something to do with this women on the ground as his mood is calm. Additionally you can see that the director uses a extreme close up to recreate the mystery of the character and the suspense of the scene and what he's looking at.




  

We then see a graphic match used in the opening sequences to show that the girl with the blue bracelet is the same person as in the the two scenes you notice the director has put all the audiences attention on the blue bracelets. also it is used with a close up to make sure that the audience is only looking at the bracelet as it represents the characters from both scenes. also you see that he has not change the colours or the way she wears it as he wants to make it obvious to the audience that its the same person.

Additionally the Mise-en scene of the man shoes and jeans is shown intentionally for the audience to also notice that he is the same person. At this point the director still hasn't shown the character, only the shoes and cuffed jeans which symbolise the character. You can also see with this shot that the character is wearing everything exactly the same intentionally for the audience to realise the mysterious character.