Abduction- Analysis of first 15minutes of a similar film

Abduction
A thriller centered on a young man who sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.

Analysis- The film opens with an establishing shot of a forest with a road through and follows a single car driving. The titles also come up every so often saying who directed, stared and produced it. The font is like it has been stenciled and runs through out all the credits. 
The shot then get closer and closer zooming into to the car until we can see everyone in and on it and what they are doing.


Shot reverse shot is used changing from outside the car to inside looking out. It also sticks to the 180degree rule so we don't get confused when watching.

The shots are short and fast to show the action and adrenaline that the character are feeling while surfing on the car. 








The camera then stays outside the car as it drives past and away, from a medium shot to a very long shot. During this scene to music has been in the background so it is barely noticeable, but as the car drives off the music gets louder and more noticeable. It is very upbeat music to show that they are excited for something.





The pedals and then the speed dial are a close up shot, this shows shows that the car is getting faster, the car then drives past the camera once again changing from medium shot to very long shot, to establishing shot of the bridge.

There is an ariel shot of the city and the bridge, this is when the name of the film is shown in the same lettering as before, stenciled and bold. This sets the scene for the film and shows it is in America.

The shot then slows down and calms when the car reaches where it was going, the colours are very bright and contrasting to show everything is normal and it is a bright sunny day to represent that everyone is happy.









There are lots of different establishing shots, by seeing what the characters are looking at, there is also an eyeline match, it does this by using a point of view shot.





There are also close ups of key information that is important for the rest of the film but they are short and hardly noticeable e.g. selling the fake ID'S and the basket ball game tickets
And once again when everything get exciting and they get more and more drunk the shots again speed up and get shorter and more blurred.


This is an eyeline shot of the car that changes into a medium close up of boh characters in the car, it does however cross the 180 degree rule but it looks good becasue it shows the girl that was with him, through the window of the car.

180degree rule is once again used in the fight scene and for the mother watching them.
The different shots are short and fast to show action.

It is then followed by a tracking shot following both characters walk into the house talking. Both the mum and Nathan wear very simple clothing as if to say they don't  want to stand out, just to keep a low profile. And through out the film Nathan changes his clothes but only to another coloured t-shirt that was the same as the last.




At the dinner table by having the two parents on one side in the darkness, and the son in the middle in the brightness it looks very awkward as if they shouldn't be there. And he is the only one showing his true colours. Also because Nathan is in between the other two people this could suggest that they are protecting him.







There is a panning shot of the family photos on the side to show the past of the family, (there are no photo of him younger with his parents)

Again at the dinner table, it shows the parents on one side and the son on the other on his own and uses the 180degree rule during their conversation.

While walking outside we see a car pull outside the house opposite, then Nathan walks into the light of a street lamp from the dark suggesting he is hiding or trying not to be seen watching the girl in the car, or that there is something about the girl and him that we don't know about yet.

This scene uses a 180degree rule during the conversation, it also uses a panning shot for the transition each person and suggests it relaxing and calm. It is almost as if she is a motherly figure to him the way that the shot shows she is sat facing him and that he seems to be relaxed too.



The dream sequence is shown over exposed and is a point of view shot, it is in slow motion and isn't clear as it covered by some material. this could suggest that his dream isn't quite clear and doesn't fully understand it.