Thursday, January 17, 2013

Codes and conventions of a chase sequence

A slow build up in the non diegetic music, rising and rising with the scene until a climax is hit for a bigger impact.
Editing gets faster as the chase or stalk gets more intense, having quick editing during the climax of the scene to create the feeling of a fast and intense chase.
- Quick edits intertwined displaying close ups of both the bully and the victim’s emotions, such as their hands, feet, face and body language to show the bully's scary qualities and angry emotion and the victims vulnerability and scared emotion.
- Most scenes like this are filmed at night, using the lighting to express the mood of the situation. If filmed in the day, the scenes usually kept as dark as possible, using an overcast day for example, to express the same emotion.
- Long establishing shots displaying the width or length of the streets or corridors in which the chase is taking place.
- Tracking shots taken either in front of the victim as they run away from the bully or an over the shoulder shot showing where they are running to.
 - Slow motion used sometimes to increase the tension as the bully either gets closer or the victim makes a lucky getaway.

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