Cape Fear

                                          Cape Fear

In todays lesson we watched the opening of Cape Fear. One of the most important parts that we noticed of this opening is that the camera was tracking rather than cutting, it went around the entire room then focussed on him. The first part of the main character that we see is his back rather than his face and on his back is a tattoo covering the entirety of his back, of a cross with religious scales of justice. The first ever part of the film shown is of books plotted around his cell, they have used props to show that he is very educated which makes you question why he may be in a prison. As soon as the tracking stops, the camera is locked into the prison by a warden, they use a graphic match of the gate to the outside of the prison opening to continue the filming of the next scene. The audio effects were used with no diegetic sound to begin with however instrumental music was used to build tension and continue to add effect to the scene.