Analysis of a foreign language thriller 1:

The Secret in Their Eyes:

In the very beginning of the sequence we hear non diagetic music in the back ground. The music is very mysterious and dark, already giving the audience an expression that its a dark thriller, with secrets involved. In the first camera shot we see a woman who is sitting at a desk, with lots of papers on the desk, the mise en scene shows here she is some type of lawyer, and her job is very time consuming. This is done by using a mid shot camera view. The next shot we see is a man writing on paper and the camera zooms in on the paper, showing that whatever he is writing has a level of importance to it. Also there is a lot of dark lighting, giving it a mysterious and quite scary mood to the audience. There is then another shot of a dead woman on the floor, straight away with a woman screaming, which is a diagetic sound. This instantly gives it away to the audience that it is a crime thriller. We then start to see the editing pace pick up with faster edit of camera shots and the music becomes more up beat and action like. As the trailer goes on we see men shouting and arguing, making the audience feel more tension within the trailer, thus getting them focused on what happening, we also see from the mise en scene the actor’s facial expressions of disappointment and sadness. Showing the audience that this crime film, will have sad moments. Just as the tension rises it is broken by a tracking shot of a man walking into a room and shooting someone behind a curtain, while this happens the up beat action music stops for that very moment showing the importance of that scene.