Analysing Media Text 5

KILL BILL VOLUME 2

Title Sequence

- miramax Films
- suspence building piano music, Staccato sounding
- Voice over, over the credits
- Titles are in an old fashioned font
- The film looks quite arty from the beginning (typical of Quentin Tarantino)

Mise-en-Scene

- Opening scene, blood on girls face, lying on a wooden floor, looks beaten up (looking very vulnerable)
- Scene 1, see blood when gun is shot, scene cuts and changes
- Scene 2, woman driving nice car starring into the camera, addressing the audience as if shes talking to the viewer.

Camera Shots

- Aerial shot/close up of bloody beaten woman showing vulnerability, as if it is point of view show of the guy who is talking leaning over the woman.
- Scene 2, , mid shot of girl driving
- Camera slowly tracks in revealing important information, adding intensity to her words.
-Focus on just the face

Editing

- Opening scene, are in black and white, making it look old fashioned
- The scne cuts on sound of gun shot adding sharpness and edgeto the beginning of the film
- Cut from girl in car to balc screen with title of the film

Lighting

- Dark ray of light on one side of her beaten up face, strong lighting on the other side
- Scene 2 still balck and white, but much lighter as it seems to be day light

Sound/music

- Opening scene,just before she's shot music builds up to create intensity
- The music is very reminiscent of the typical 'psycho' music. Viewer can hear something bad is going to happen
- Can hear music, amn talking and woman breathig heavily, gives the impression of her being scarred,
-Voice over
musicis edgy creating suspense, carries on over credits , then the music stops as the title of the film appears.