Genre Research; Murder Mystery: comedy thriller.

  Welcome back to my AICE Media Studies Blog. This blog will be about the elements and conventions of the movie: “Murder mystery”. These elements will include the common camera angles, movements, Mis-En-Scene, lighting, sound and editing of the movie. Camera angles frequently used throughout the movie were establishing shots, three-shots, and two-shots. The three-shots and two-shots were used in conversations and the establishing shots highlighted change in location, including scenes where the Spitz’s got onto the yacht, and in the end/closing scene that showcased the train they were on. Common camera angles throughout the movie were pans, zooms, and POV shots. Pans were used to move right to left on introduction scenes such as when Charles was exiting his sport’s car in the middle of the movie. POV shots were used to show scenes through the eyes of an actor.
  Most of the characters in the movie were rich so common costumes throughout the movie included expensive clothing such as dresses and pearls/ suits and fancy watches; one exception to this were the Spitzes who wore tacky beach attire compared to the costumes of Charle’s family members/friends. There was slight makeup throughout the movie, just regular makeup to enhance the faces of the actors. Props included hats, guns, shades etc. There were several locations throughout the movie. These locations included the Spitzes home, the plane they rode to travel to Paris, the train they rode on the end, the yacht they rode throughout the movie and the library in Italy that featured a gun scene.  The most frequently seen lighting throughout the movie was 3-point lighting. This featured fill light, back light, and key light. Common editing in the movie included jump cuts and eye-line matches. Eye line matches were used to show an actor’s response to an object and to show the audience the object of an actor’s interest/attention. Jump cuts were used many times to move from scene to scene.
  Common sound throughout the movie included digetic sound, sound-bridges, and voice-overs. Voice- overs were used in the movie as character’s reflected on the past. These scenes showed the Spitzes reflecting on new evidence, the clip would feature their voice and would be showing us (the audience) the scene of what really happened. Sound bridges were used to smoothly connect scenes and digetic sounds included all sounds that characters could hear such as talking and birds chirping. My favorite elements in this movie were the digetic sounds and camera angles. I liked the digetic sounds because they were mostly conversations and the movie was honestly hilarious. I also loved the camera angles because they assisted the audience in seeing the film from different perspectives and although it was mysterious and filled with thriller it was also hilarious. The different angles really helped capture the emotions of actors. There were no elements that i disliked throughout the movie.