Brick

Film title / font style

The font style is what you would see in a typical thriller black background with the big white font making the title in center of the frame and the editor has also separated the letters to give it a sort of lonley effect. The reason why this is done in most thrillers because its a sort of scary and mystery effect towards the film.


Setting and location

The establishing(master) is in a sewage sort of place with a teenage boy in a crouched down position looking at a girl doesn't seem to be moving which makes us wonder as the viewers is she dead? how did they get to that place? and was it him who killed the girl? the expression on the teenage boys face was of shock, confusion , paranoia and various other expression this makes us as the audience want to know more about the film which good because that is the whole point of the opening sequence.


Costumes and props

The purpose of the props sometimes is to give us clues as to what is about to happen in the film there are a few props used in the opening sequence one of the main props used is the dark blue bangles on the girl who is lying dead in little stream, I believe the reason why they used dark blue bangles is because blue is the colour of depression and sometimes death. the person who put something the the teenage boys locker is the same girl who died in the gutter we can tell this because of the bangles this was also probably one of the last things she did which makes us ask why did she put the note in his locker? what does she want him to know that no one else can know ? and more importantly why is she dead ?

Editing

The editing in the opening sequence is very clever and I also think it is very typical of a thriller loads of close ups and master shot the reason why they do this is because they do not want to give anything away by and getting the viewers to understand where the film is taking place. the shot I liked the most was of the dead girl and her bangles were dangling in stream for me it just makes me think of death and depression.

Genre (thriller)

We can tell this is a thriller by the font style of the title, close ups don't giving anything away, the props that use to give us clues as to how the story is going to unfold and panic and worry in the faces of the characters.