Shoot em up

Shoot Em Up

In the opening sequences of this film. The first thing you see is a Male dressed in all black, with a long black coat. From this you can get the idea that the character might be a villain. Also the 1st prop that we see is a gun in his hand; this confirms our 1st opinion of the character. The setting is night time and the scene takes place in an abandoned building, which looks like a place to hide out of desperation from the 1st female character that was running away from the villain. There is low key lighting as it is taking place at night, and this is relevant to the effect of the theme.
The next thing you notice is another male characters expression to seeing the pregnant female being cornered. He seems to give off an impression of being tired and frustrated. We can tell that he is frustrated and stressed as he crushes his coffee cup in his hand and proceeds to follow the action.
The camera changes from the guy, to the villain whom has the pregnant female cornered in the dark building, this gives him a sense of power as he laughs and point his gun towards her.
The next thing we notice is the cameras effect as its showing the only the villain and the pregnant female cornered, then out of the mist comes the other guy who we can assume is the main character. He too is wearing very dark cloths, although his actions show he is not a villain as he comes to the aid of the pregnant female.
Our opinion of the main character is confirmed as he helps the woman, who for her unfortunately has her water break and the main character is there to help her. This is interesting as immediately after this we notice more villains appear in groups all wearing similar dark, black cloths and having guns on them.
Shooting begins. During the shooting the camera angles change to show both sides of the battle. After the distinguished villains seem to have been killed, more appear. Who seem to be angry at the fact they cannot kill one man. The anger is shown by their lack of aim, an instead they are shooting blind shots. The camera does some good closes ups on them and on how they die. Also they all appear in low key lighting as they try and hide.
It’s interesting as there is not a lot of speech in this scene yet the main character has time to talk about his frustrations to the woman, whilst he is shooting and delivering her baby at the same time.
As the scene goes on. There is more shooting, and blood is shown. Throughout the scene there are a different number of camera angles, this shows us the viewers, the good and bad sides of the battle. The lighting seems to be a mixture of low key and high key as the scenes are very realistic, and the shadows aren’t really pronounced. The language used also shows that the characters are expressing anger and frustration but for different reasons. There are not really any props used apart from guns.

To summarise the beginning of the film “Shoot ‘Em up” there is an overall thriller and gangster theme going on, as it is a lot of shooting in the opening minutes and opening scenes. All the characters seem to be wearing similar cloths as they are wearing dark cloths, which seem to suit the role of their character. There is good use of camera angles and high key lighting to add to the effect on the scenes. There is not really any props required or used apart from the obvious (guns) and the characters facial expressions show their emotions during the shooting.