"Above the low” started with a shot of a car driving through the motor way in the early hours of the morning it then cuts to the back of the car more of a pov shot to represent us as an audience within the story. This use of restrictive camera shots would intrigue the audience to what had happen. The sequence follows of shots in the forest this can represent the car moving further away from civilisation. As the car grinds to a stop the main "protagonist" (using a red herring and he is actually the antagonist) drags the dead woman’s body around there is no flash backs of the characters relationship to give us clues to way she is dead this can create theatre of the mind as to whether the woman knew the antagonist before she died enigma and action codes of whether the antagonist is going to get caught later in the film. The final scene ends with two detectives talking to each other while the crime scene investigators search in the background for clues the cheap surprise was of the murder (antagonist) being a dective as well showing the conventions of police corruption in crime genre.
Overall a high level 2/ low level 3. the cinematography could have been used more for example the crime scene all was shown was of the two police detectives talking in the foreground with a shoddy shot reverse shot what they should of done was cross cut in between the crime scene and the two detectives creating a more crime thriller scene. The bad editing that let them down such for the shot reverse shot scene where the editing was too slow letting the audience get confused and had also broke the 180 degree rule. There is only one sound track throughout the sequence which even though keeps you more focus on the film presents little effort. Yet the opening had good enigma codes (except for poor text credits of just white font) the audience can decode the rest of the sequence such as a man and a dead woman driving into the forest this would leave the audience in a guessing game as to what happened to the woman in the past events.
One more kiss narration was simple and easy to decode after a couple of minutes, the story of a small flat in the middle of London where we are already placed in the disequilibrium scene where the man calmly fixes himself a drink while looking at himself in the mirror before he goes to the phone and compose him to create an performance of panic and distress we are then shown flash backs of the couple fighting but we can’t hear what they are fighting about this is then later added with a tracking shot towards the door the theatre of the mind comes to what’s behind the door and why is it so important to have that scene alone. The is a sudden cheap surprise at the end when the audience presumed that the woman is dead through the man’s performance of shock she suddenly opens her eyes when the scene goes black this cheap surprise create a enigma code of the remaining of the film of revenge on the husband.
the production design showed little thought and the result of poor recce gave them a less better output, the house was small and was not cleaned enough as there were some poor camera works where the position was of making the audience focus on the background more than the main character making them less powerful. the editing showed simple transitions of cross cutting to the past and showing the two couple fitting this editing create understanding for the audience however was used to much and became repetitive. The flash backs has of the two couples fighting the sound of them arguing didn’t fit always into the scenes plus the soundtrack was simple which can show little effort into the post production the mise-en-scene was at its best at the end of the sequences when we get a close up of the woman’s beaten face with the well dim lighting the shot became more realistic and what had happen previously. Although it had intention of enigma codes: why the man was acting suspicious at the start of the film, why is he calmly phoning the police to the wife death and what kind of relationship did he have with the woman.
Level 2/3
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