Title: Essex Boys
Director: Terry Winsor
Date: 2000
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Certificate: 18
Brief Synopsis:
The film is based loosely around events in December 1995 that culminated in the murders of three drug dealers in Rettendon, Essex. On 6th December Patrick Tate, Craig Rolfe and Tony Tucker, three drug dealers well known to the police, were lured to Workhouse Lane. There they were blasted to death with a shot gun while sitting in their Range Rover and had been lured to their deaths on the pretext of a lucrative drugs deal. The three bodies were found the following morning.
This is a trailer from the film 'Essex Boys'
The wording at the very beginning introduces the premise of the film. By saying it is based on a true story gives the audience a sense of reality and by saying that it ‘left three men dead, two serving life imprisonment and another living under an assumed identity’ immediately creates suspense and intrigue as to what happened.
Director: Terry Winsor
Date: 2000
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Certificate: 18
Brief Synopsis:
The film is based loosely around events in December 1995 that culminated in the murders of three drug dealers in Rettendon, Essex. On 6th December Patrick Tate, Craig Rolfe and Tony Tucker, three drug dealers well known to the police, were lured to Workhouse Lane. There they were blasted to death with a shot gun while sitting in their Range Rover and had been lured to their deaths on the pretext of a lucrative drugs deal. The three bodies were found the following morning.
This is a trailer from the film 'Essex Boys'
The wording at the very beginning introduces the premise of the film. By saying it is based on a true story gives the audience a sense of reality and by saying that it ‘left three men dead, two serving life imprisonment and another living under an assumed identity’ immediately creates suspense and intrigue as to what happened.
In the opening credits the use of the white lines being drawn could symbolise someone scratching a car with a key which gives reference to the location and actions that take place in the film. It gives a sense of grittiness especially with the harsh, scratching sound that goes with it and the melancholy soundtrack.
In this image the way the mud has been smudged across the windscreen gives Jason a gritty and harsh persona which also reflects the location. His posture is full of arrogance and the way he is looking straight at Billy without expression is quite aggressive. The framing of the car windscreen gives the effect that darkness is closing in on him and that something bad is going to happen to him which is dramatic irony. The chiaroscuro lighting gives this image an eerie effect and by using Billy's perspective to show the uncertainty that he has of Jason and the opinion that he has of him is unclear.
The use of the vertical lights connotes the feeling of imprisonment or that the character Billy is trapped in this dangerous situation. This could insinuate that Jason has just got out of jail and that maybe Billy is heading in that direction. Billy is in focus to show his emotion whereas the character Jason is blurred to create a sense of unknowing about him and that Billy maybe has an unsure perception of him.
This image of the car in the tunnel could be interpreted as looking down a barrel of a gun suggesting that something bad is going to happen to these characters. It could also be perceived as there is light at the end of the tunnel, however, the car is blocking the light and therefore they are stuck in a never-ending bad situation.
Reflecting marginal understanding of some elements of mise-en-scene. The establishing shot of Jason is not a worm's eye shot!!!!
ReplyDeleteYour interpretation of lighting is stronger and your final paragraph suggests that with more detailed note taking, prompt write up of notes taken in class instead of waiting weeks would result in a less generalised analysis.
As advised you could watch this clip again on youtube, reference your yellow booklet on writing analysis and strengthen this post by adding more detail and rooting your ideas with close reference to aspects of mise-en-scene.
You appear to have revised your previous post and thus your revisions reflect a developing understanding of lighting, camera angles, positioning of characters in the opening sequence of "Esses Boys".
ReplyDeleteWell done Emily, you have competently analysed aspects of film language particularly relating to the representation of Jason.
Watch your vocabulary i.e. "bad" try to use more sophisticated advjectives, for example threatening, aggressive, arrogant, bullish, bullying, domineering, and so on when it comes to Jason's character.