Tuesday 11 January 2011

analysing prestige part 1/9

Prestige part 1 follows a path using specific conventions so that it builds a certain effect on the audience I.E the dark lighting and shadows to either show where the character stands in the film i.e the "bad" character would be shown in the dark and the "good" character would be in the light or the dark lighting could just simply be to create atmosphere and help indicate the genre.
The slow music is there to help expand on the atmosphere by creating tension and attracting the audience.
Something else that is also used in the part 1 of the prestige is match on action showing three different actions to help create a stronger storyline usually, the antagonist will drive the protagonist deeper and deeper into a puzzle leaving the protagonist feeling hopeless this continues until the protagonist finds a solution to defeat the antagonist by solving the crime in this case its Mr cutter trying to solve the story behind a man's death in a magic trick and assumes that Alfie has something to do with it.
The low tone of the voice-over (narrator) is also the main character in the film this may be so make the audience see the story from his point of view and to help indicate who the protagonist is straight away.
A short story line  is shown at the beginning to get a better understanding of the following parts and as to why those specific events are happening i.e when the main characters are in the court discussing previous event.
Extreme close-ups on human features and objects are very popular in thriller films to get the audience hooked into the film directly so that they can later on link the close-ups to the genre i.e in the beginning of prestige there's a number of black hats lying on the floor as if something has happened and black hats are a piece of clothing that is known to represent the appearance of magicians.

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