Brick

In class we watched and analysed a clip of the film Brick. The film uses various methods to convey the thriller genre.
Conventions of a Thriller

• The film starts with a shot of a boy looking at a dead body on the floor. Suggests the thriller genre.
• Suspicious

Camera

• Close up shot of the boys face at the start.
• Shot-reverse shot between the boy and the dead girl on the ground.

Editing

• It starts with a shot of the boy looking at something and then there is a shot of the dead body.
• The two scenes are linked together with the hand.
• The girl is alive in the next scene which suggests that it is a flashback as she was dead in the first scene.
• The shot edits are of a medium length as they are not fast but are also not too slow.

Sound

• Non-diegetic sound of the music in the background.
• There is no dialogue in the opening scene.

Mise-En-Scene

• The first scene seems to be near some sort of valley.
• There is water running down the path which is going on and around the dead girl.