Research - Harry Brown

Analysis of the opening scene of Harry Brown:

• The black background and small white titles does not add much to the film, it does not give the audience any idea about what the film is about or even what might be in the film. The audience is kept in suspense to see what might happen in this film.
• At about 00.09 as the titles we start to here faint talking from what sounds like a young man, this gets louder and louder until finally the film begins and we are able to see a group of young lads in a underpass at 00.15. This audio during the titles is used to start to set the scene for the viewer, even before the viewer can see the action.
• 00.16 The shot is done on a hand held camera, this makes this scene a pov shot and makes the audience feel like they are rely there, the people moving around in front of the camera makes it look like the viewer is part of the crowed.
• At 00.18 the camera is right up against the wall and all we can see is the character surrounded by walls and people, this is very claustrophobic and so gives the audience a sense that the character is being pressured into something and has nowhere to run.
• The director has created a very smokey atmosphere at 00.45 this is to show the audience that they do drugs and smoke down there as the air does not look very clean, you also see the character exhale which shows that he is doing drugs.
• At 00.55 we see the camera quickly get into focus on the gun. This is done so it looks like the guy quickly points the gun at the audiences face. The camera focuses because it looks like when the human eye has to quickly adjust when something is suddenly up close, and so this creates the sensation that the gun has just been pointed in the viewers face. 
• The sudden stop of action at 01.13 is done because this is were the clip ends and the next scene is a while latter and so the title is played to break up the film and to show time passing without having to say it on the film. 
• The rest of the opening again is filmed on a handheld camera as a pov shot so the audience believes they are there in the action, in this case it is made to look like the viewer is riding a motorbike.
• The camera looks down at the wheel of the motorbike at 01.20 this is done so that all the viewers know that this is a motorbike that is being ridden as you could only tell this before by the audio of the motorbike engine. 
• The whole scene were the motorbike is driving is done with very quick frames of lots of different camera angles, this is done to give the impression that the motorbike is driving excessively fast.
• Between 01.47 and 01.57 the audio is muffled, this is because the director is trying too make the viewer believe that that gun rely fired and that the bang has deafened them slightly. 
• At 02.06 to 02.11 we see the camera slide across the road, this is showing that the rider of the bike gets knocked of the bike with some force to send him sliding all the way  across the road.
• At 02.11 the camera is settled on the ground facing the crash scene, this shows the audience the scale of the crash as you can see the bike in pieces all over the place.