Media Criminal Justice

Megan Gorman and Lucy Woods

Scene 1:Knife

The shots were quite jumpy this showed his excitement in the danger of the game with the knife. The camera panned from Ben to the girl when they were playing the game which made the situation seem quite intense. The only sound in the scene is dialogue, the dialogue is quite sharp. When they are playing the game there is very little dialogue, they use their eye contact to communicate what they are thinking.  When the knife goes down it is a bit louder than what it would usually be, so sound effects has been used to amplify the sound when the knife hits her hand. This shocks the audience and intensifies the atmosphere; the audience will be waiting for the game to go wrong. There was probably continuity editing during the conversation and short take as it cut quite frequently. Action match was used when the man stabbed down and then we saw it in the woman’s hand. The audience becomes aware of how dangerous the game is. At this moment Ben is feeling quite bad that he has hurt her as he was reluctant to do it in the first place. The game excites him though as it is dangerous, and with the girl encouraging him he feels he has something to prove. The alcohol in the scenes shows the audience that they are not themselves and they are probably drunk. The knife is the most important prop in the scene, it starts the danger, when Ben sees what the girl does the first time he is shocked. The lighting in the scene was quite dim and it gave a relaxed feeling but the relaxed feeling disappeared and became uneasy once the knife came out. Near the start there is a master shot to show where they are, and then it goes to a close up of the girl taking off her necklace. The audience sees this as something of importance. At this point Ben is having a good time, this is just before it all goes downhill.