Section 2: Red Eye Analysis

Narrative structure:

• A young woman is travelling on a plane to an unkown detination to the audience and whilst she is away the hotel that she manages is being taken care of by her assistant.

Codes and conventions:

• transformed city- the area that is in the clip seems to be a normal everyday working environment and because of the genre of the film the audience is mad aware that it will more than likely change

Camerawork:

• close ups of the two women characters faces to show the differences in their levels of calmness and how professional they are

Mise en scene:

• Girl behind desks actions and expressions showed the audience that she was nervous
• girl in car was very calm and expressed her role as a hotel manager by being calm an showed the audience what her character is like
• Father was persuasive over the phone to his daughter showed that he has control as a parent
• both the women were dressed in suits which shows that they are business women
• old couple were wearing classy old fashioned clothes which is a reflection of their age
• dad was dressed in comfortable clothing which is a reflection of his homely setting
• the settings were a hotel, airport, taxi and a house and this all came together to be linked because of the phone calls that were happening on screen
• the house lighting was very soft and calm which showed that the audience that tis is a comfortable setting

Sound: 

• Diegetic- car, airport background noise
• Non diegetic- music in opening was like all thriller music dark and ominous and suggests that there was some deceptive acts taking place on screen

Graphics:

• white text against a black background to make them stand out to the audience