Henry, will and gareth (Will's blog on thriller)

The film i am looking at is 'Face off'. The film face off starts different than you would have thought, as straight away its happy faces on a merry go round. At this point the music is quite slow and joyful. This is to show that the son and the dad (John travolta) are having a good time on the merry go round. But as soon as the camera goes onto the mystery man in the distance (Nicholas Cage) the joyfull, happy music hits a stop and slow,quite and dull music kicks in as you see the mystery man with a gun! THe lightness of this scene appears to be quite dull iwth color as the oclor is not so quite black and white but a very light shde of colors.When the gun shot has been fired the bullet goes in slow motion and takes a few seconds to make contanct. This builds tension and mkaes the impact of the shot quite dramatic. The colors which are quite clear are the colors on the ballons. The balloons i believe are synbolic to the child who has been killed going off to heaven. All the different camera shots used within the clip are a mix between long shots and close ups. There are not many camera shots used as it is quite simple but very effective opening. Overall i thought this was an awsome start to a movie i rate it a wopping 57/60