Prison Break Season 1 Episode 1

By Daniella Blow

The camera starts off the scene as a close up of Michael. The camera then pans round to the left side of Michaels face, and carries on panning but moving down slowly at the same time in order so we can see the tattoo being done. It then carries on panning more and more until eventually it comes to a stop on the tattooist. There wasn’t much editing as it was probably done with all one shot (continuity editing) giving us a slow feel to this scene. The fact it giving us a slow feel could suggest that as the protagonist is getting a tattoo done and will be going through pain which is going slowly, the slow feel to this scene maybe was trying to make us feel involved with getting the tattoo and making us feel some of his pain. The screen time of this scene would be Michael, the young man getting a tattoo done. This could automatically highlight to the audience that he is the main character of the whole series as he was the first character to be shown and also for the majority of the time in this scene, however there is another women in the scene who is doing the tattoo but we don't focus on her as much as Michael meaning she is only important for this scene and probably wont come up again in the rest of the show. There was two types of sound in this scene. The non-diegetic sound was the soundtrack that was played very quietly in the background meaning that the diegetic sound of the tattoo buzzing was more important for the audience to hear. Towards the end of the scene, the tattooist then says ‘it normally takes people 2 years to get what you have’ and Michael replies ‘yeah well, I don’t have two years’. This automatically gives the audience loads of enigma codes that is very mysterious. As he said that, shows us that he is defiantly up to something that he doesn’t have a lot of time to do, the fact that he is insinuating to us that he doesn’t have a lot of time, but he is able to get a tattoo looks like everything is linked to the tattoo’s or the tattoo’s he is getting is because he needs it for something. The volume of the non diegetic sound gradually gets louder giving us more tension about the pain of the tattoo. Then the volume begins to go down to quiet again as the tattooist is about to begin to talk. The lighting of this scene is vey low key lighting with not much light in this scene at all. Most of the scene is in the shadows which the director probably did on purpose as the background is not relevant to the audience as we can tell where the scene is set just because of the noise. Our attention as the audience is fully drawn on Michaels face and arm where he is getting the tattoo done suggesting they are the only bits of this scene that is important to know to fit with the story line. However the low key lighting can also connotate danger and darkness due to the black and eary feel to the whole scene. The setting of this scene is able to contribute to the narrative of this programme and can further the knowledge of the film making it easier for them to understand and not get confused. In this particular scene there isn't a costume that the main character is topless but is meaningful as he is getting a tattoo done which is understandable in this case. The body language of Michael is very still, normally when people get a tattoo they are in a lot of pain and show this by body language and facial expressions, however Michael shows no sign of pain and stress as he has a straight facial expression and isnt moving. This may suggest that as he is the main character he is very brave and a calm person in general.

This particular scene starts off as a long shot establishing shot of the scenery of where the programme is based. It then pans across to the other side. This is suggesting that it is a change of scene and it is where the main character is at this time. The next shot is a focus pull of an origami swan which Michael the main character is in the background which the focus then pulls onto him, this can highlight to us that both of the things that the camera focuses on has a relevance and is important to the show. When he walks past the camera, it changes to a mid shot of Michael in an apartment looking at loads of papers on his window. There is then lots of close ups of the pictures and articles on the window giving us an insight of what it is to answer some enigma codes that we have. Michael then begins to rip them off and scrunch them all up using mid shots and extreme close ups. There was lots of editing as the feel of this scene was the idea that it is meant to be quite fast to show the tension that is building up and the suspense of the audience not knowing what is going on. The non-diegetic sound was the soundtrack that was played was different to the last scene. It was more upbeat and more tense. When the long shot of the city was shown, the music changed from slow and quiet, to louder with a beat to it. When Michael began to tear the papers off the window, the background music became quieter and had a more eary feel to it. There was also diegetic sound of the papers being torn off to add the effect of what he is doing. The fact he is tearing off the papers, and the sound is quite loud, it all adds up to the audience to portray anger as he is doing it so aggressively and hard. This may highlight to us that he may be up to something as he is trying to get rid of everything. The lighting of this scene is low key showing us that its late at night. The only bit of lighting that we see are the lamps that are lit up in the apartment which is the only source of light that is letting us to see what is going on. The scene with the swan, our attention is all drawn on the swan because the light is right next to the swan making all of our attention on that and when the focus is on Michael he is in the shadows making it all look a bit weird to the audience and wonder where he is going and what is going on. low-key lighting relies on shadows, deep blacks and darker tones, with very few whites and middle tones which suggests mysterious and moody, dramatic. That really fits with the idea of the scene as the way the paper is being ripped off is very dramatic but is also mysterious. Throughout this part, we don’t see a close up of Michaels face so we cant suggest what he is feeling inside. However the fact he is doing what he is doing, and the fact there is so much paper on the windows, on the desk, books everywhere, highlights that Michael is trying to work something out and has been for a long time. He is wearing a suit. Suits are worn in formal situations and in this case he is just in his apartment cleaning up. Also as it is at night time it is unlikely that he will be going anywhere formal at this time. The room he is in, is very busy, there's a lot going on in one tiny area (the desk) we are not shown a close up of what is on the desk which obviously shows that is isn’t as important as what's on the window. On the papers on the window we are shown a few headlines including: ‘Lincoln Borrows final appeal denied’ ‘Life sentence for Mob Boss Abruzzi’ we are shown these to answer some enigma codes and give us some clues about the whole idea of this series. The fact we are only shown certain articles and they are both clearly related to prison as one of the pictures, he was wearing bright orange clothing which we relate to a prison outfit. All of the scrunched up paper then gets aggressively pushed into the bin, when it goes into the bin, the scene cuts so its as if what Michael has been planning, he is about to do so he is putting this chapter of his life in the bin and starting a brand new one.

Here, Michael has just unplugged something electronic out of a computer which was shown by a close up. He then walks with it out the door onto the balcony which we can see by a mid shot of his face. The camera then cuts to a long shot of Michael facing his back to us and throws the electronic into the river below him. The sound in this part is the non diegetic music is played getting faster in the background, when Michael is about the throw it in, the music stops and we hear the diegetic sound of him sighing which shows signs of relief but also stress but in this case he is probably taking a deep breath for what he is about to do. The editing is at a medium speed as it wants to build suspense up to when Michael throws the electronic into the river, up to before he throws it, we don’t know what he is about to do, so by having the editing at a medium pace makes us want it to hurry up to find out what he is about to do. We also hear Michael huffing in the action of him throwing it which we can clearly see he is putting a lot of his strength into as he wants it to go as far away as possible from him. The mise en scene in this scene includes Michaels facial expressions. As he is walking towards the balcony, he has a very straight face which shows his seriousness of this ‘plan’ he has, also shows an aspect of concentration in his actions. The scenery behind the scene we have seen before in a shot earlier which now tells us it is where he lives. The lights and the darkness suggest that it is night once again. As he unplugs the electronic, it isn’t obvious what it is which gives us even more enigma codes about this scene. However, the fact he is trying to get rid of it as well as what he did with the paper, highlights he is planning to get rid of as much evidence as possible to what he is planning. Here, Michael is in the 1st rule of thirds making it a more interesting shot and to make sure that we get a good insight to where he is throwing it but also can see Michael.

This scene starts off as a long shot establishing shot of a bank which gives us several enigma codes of what is going to happen next. Then it cuts to another long shot but at a high angle of inside the bank showing that there is a robbery going on. It then cuts from that to a low angle mid shot of Michael pointing a gun at a women, then it changes to the other way round to an over the shoulder shot from Michaels point of view. By having so many shots in this scene suggests that there is a lot going on. Meaning the editing is very fast to fit everything in in a few seconds. As a bank robbery is taking place, there is probably a lot of fear and confusion in there and by having a fast feel to it can make us emphasis with them as they cant catch everything which is happening. The sound of this scene is all diegetic sound. There is no background music maybe because it is a more serious situation and wants the audience to focus on everything that is happening/being said in the scene itself and wants all their attention to be on that rather than the up beat music that is usually played in Prison break which 100% doesn’t fit with this situation. The diegetic sound involves the sound of the cars speeding past with the sound of the wind catching them, then as it goes into the bank, we hear a couple of gun shots and screaming following them. This suggests the people are in a lot of danger which is being caused by the gun shots. Right at the end of this scene we begin to hear Police sirens implying he got caught which really makes the audience tense up and on the edge of their seat to wonder and find out what is going to happen to Michael which is what everyone else in that scene is thinking especially Michael which puts us in Michaels shoes for a bit. There is a lot of aspects of Mise en scene in this particular part of the Prison Break Pilot for example the first bit we see which is the outside of the bank and we can automatically see that it’s a bank as it says ‘BANK’ on the building, when you take a first look at the scene, the first thing we want to find out is what it is and why have they shown this particular shot and in this case we are shown this shot to tell us that the next scene is in the bank and that is where it will be set. The next scene is inside of the bank. We see several people lying on the floor as if they are already dead as that is the first thought the audience will get as we can see a man holding a gun in the air which can show us that it is a bank robbery. As soon as the gun shot goes off, the screams begin to happen and the people on the floor begin to move which then tell us that they are not dead they are just showing major feelings of fear and terror as it’s a very horrifying situation they are in. up until the shot that we can see Michaels face, we didn’t actually know it was him. Michael is wearing a grey suit which was different to the one he was wearing in the scene before. That shows it was a different day and that all the things he was planning to do, was obviously this event that has been building up.

Narrative viewpoint of Prison Break.Prison Break is set in the form of a restricted narrative. This means that the audience only get to see/know as much as the characters see and we don’t get any extra clues. This is effective in this series because there is a lot of enigma codes that are made throughout this scene, but we don’t get shown any clues to help us answer these, we have to wait until the character does which can make the whole series more catchy and more tense to watch. Prison break is in a Linear format which refers to the story being told in order from beginning to end. This is exactly what Prison Break is because it starts from right at the beginning of Michaels story and works its way to the end. However, throughout Prison Break there are sections where its very hard to work out what's going to happen next due to many twists and turns in the whole episode which make us question what is going to happen next, for example in the bank robbery scene, when the police sirens went off, it made the whole audience wonder what is going to happen next but still following the Linear structure as in the next scene we soon find out what is happening to Michael which is continuous throughout the whole series of Prison Break as all the enigma codes and plot twists are answered in the correct order. Vladimir Propp came up with a theory which included eight main character types in every story: The Hero, False Hero, Princess, Father, Helper, Villain, Donor and Dispatcher. Which all eight of these characters apply to Prison Break, with Michael being the hero. However, in the scene I have analysed it is not clear that Michael is in fact the Hero as he is robbing a bank and that is not seen to be a hero act, and from our point of view we do not consider Michael a hero at that stage. But as the series continue and the linear structure continues smoothly, we soon find out that Michael did that for a reason and was to try and save his brother and we can then match Michael with the hero. Tvetvan Todorov also conducted his own theory concerning the layout of every story with 5 different stages which include:-The equilibrium-the disruption-the recognition-attempt to repair disruption-the new equilibriumWhich all 5 can be adapted to fit with Prison Break somehow. The beginning of the series we are introduced to the main characters, slowly but clearly and the situation they are all in at the time (for example, Michaels brother being in prison about to get killed and Michael is trying to get put into the same prison to try and escape him) the Disruption can be adjusted to when the brothers try and escape but they get caught eventually. The recognition can be known as when more drama occurs and when Michael and Lincoln (brothers) get into a mission they have to solve which is very risky. The attempt to repair the disruption is when the brothers take on the mission and try and finish it so they can all get out of trouble and be free. And finally the new equilibrium is the final couple of episodes when they eventually finished the mission but however someone dies which changes everything for many of the characters. Roland Barthes, a French literary critic proposed ‘5 codes’ at play in a narrative. Prison Break includes many Hermeneutic codes (enigma codes) from the scene I analysed for example ‘Why did Michael say he didn’t have 2 years?’ ‘Why is all that paper on the window?’ ‘Why did he through the electronic in the river’ which are slowly answered but not straight away making the audience confused but also wanting to watch on to figure out what the answers are and what is going on. In prison break it also includes Chekov's gun which is when an object is shown in the scene which you think is irrelevant, the chances are it will show again and be relevant to the show. In this case for example, the focus pull of the origami swan that we see, that at the beginning we take no notice of, but as the show proceeds, the origami swan has a much deeper meaning which is Michael uses them to talk to people in the prison and work things out (blue prints) on his escape route and where to go.

‘Alone’ short film analysis

The short film starts off as an mid shot/focus pull of the main character on his desk on a computer. It also consists of several tiny close up shots of the actions he is doing including clicking of the mouse, typing on the keyboard, a focus pull of the computer to show he is on a computer and not a laptop, it then does a panning shot of the hand on the mouse, along to the typing of the keyboard. As this section is really quiet and relaxed, we suddenly here a knock at the door which is a noise that will stop the relaxed mood and we know there will be some sort of sound following from it. The main character politely says ‘Come in’ which we can then tell that he is a very friendly man who doesn’t get annoyed easily as he is trying to get along with some work and doesn’t mind being interrupted. A man then enters saying ‘the reports sir’ the fact he says ‘sir’ can tell us that he is an important man in the business and is high up so is related to the name ‘sir’. The editing of this scene is quite slow and relaxed with no fast shots to create suspense of tension, at this stage it is creating a really relaxed environment for the audience which can highlight that he is also very relaxed too. There is only diegetic sound which include the background chatter from other people in the room/near the room, typing on the keyboard, the phone ringing, someone making tea in the background (cup hitting surface and stirring) which helps really set the scene for the audience. It puts us in a position where we can really imagine what its like in the set they are in and it is like we are there as well witnessing everything that the character is witnessing. There is a lot of Mise en scene in this first section of the film. it is all high key lighting at this stage as the office is brightly lit up which is probably from the windows as it is day light. The bright lights in this scene can represent and link to the personality of the main character. Throughout the scene he continuously has a jolly and friendly feel to him, for example when the man interrupts him, he doesn’t get annoyed, he is very chilled out which we can see by he smiles as he says ‘come in’ which suggests he is a happy person in general. When the man walks into his office with something to give him, we do not see his face or above his waist. This could be done on purpose in order that it was not an important section of the film and therefore we do not need to see his face as it is not something we are meant to focus on. We are meant to be focusing on the routine of the main characters day and what its like to be him. He is wearing formal clothes including a shirt and tie. This can automatically show us that he is at work in this case, being in a formal environment and also insinuates again that he is high up so therefor is expected to be dressed in formal wear.

Continuing from the normal routine in the main characters office. We come to a mid shot of him picking up a phone. As the phone call proceeds, we are faced with a close up shot of the man on the phone but we are only shown half of his face and the phone to his ear with the blurred background behind him. We then cut to an extreme close up of his eyes wondering all over the place showing his utter confusion and disturbance on his face and how he is feeling. The editing of this scene is continuity editing which suggests all of these things are happening in the order we are seeing them in. it has a medium paced feel to it as its not super fact but isn’t slow either. This could be effective due to the confusion the audience are feeling right now which is also the major feeling of the man too. It makes us emphasise with him completely as we know as much as he does at the moment. The different shots straight cut together quite fast which shows the panic he is feeling and that he doesn’t know what to do. The character has the longest screen time also insinuating that he is the only person you have to concentrate on during the duration of this film which is clearly shown through the scenes so far we have scene which all include him. There is diegetic sound used in this scene to add to the weirdness of it. It includes a deep heart beat which shows us that the characters heart has dropped and is beating very fast because of what he has just heard about everyone dying. There is also sirens wailing in the background to add to the disaster and make it sound more dramatic to the audience and something more serious. When the camera zooms in on his eyes, a mysterious, deep, loud backing music starts playing to add the suspension of this situation. This can really help This again is high key lighting which is set through how realistic a real life job in the office, lots of lighting to make it bright and more enjoyable. However, the mood of the lighting does not match the mood of the character like it did in the previous section. The characters mood has changed from being extremely jolly to confused and panic and dismay that he is feeling right now, which you would expect the whole mood of the scene to change by making it darker and more mysterious but maybe the bright lighting to match the dull mood is there to show the confusion he is feeling at the time. The fact that we are shown the gesture of the phone being picked up in his office on his desk will expect it to be a business call and something related to work, but when we hear the phone call we then find out that it is nothing to do with work and is something very disturbing in fact. It is a shock for the audience as they were not expecting that at all due to the normal routine we have scene before. His facial expressions are very clear to what he is feeling for example when he first answers the phone, his face has a bit of personality to it as he smiles when he says hello. Then as soon as the women starts talking, his face drops and his eyebrows go in and his eyes drop showing nothing but confusion. When we are shown the close up of his eyes, he is just staring which highlights he cannot believe what he is hearing and is almost in some sort of day dream, then his eyes start to wander to somewhere else to show his intense thoughts that he is currently thinking at the time.

After this very disturbing phone call that has put everyone into confusion and shock, we are faced with a mid shot of the character waking up from a dream, then a close up of his feet showing he is getting out of bed. Following is his normal morning routine that we are shown by a close up of him turning the shower on, then a high angle shot of him getting his toothbrush out the draw, close up of brushing teeth and spitting out cutting to a mid shot of him in the mirror. Mid shot of buttoning up his shirt then finally a close up of him opening food can etc. which gives us a better idea to what is going on, we are shown his morning routine as the film is all about him so it follows him and his everyday life that we need to learn about in order to understand the film. When he is brushing his teeth, his eyes are in line with the middle line of the rule of thirds making it very obvious that is the main focus point. The editing has a fast pace to it as everything needed to go in order, the fact everything was done at a straight cut is effective because it means the audience wont get bored of just watching his routine of waking up which is something people do find boring as they have to do it everyday. There includes non-diegetic in this section which consists of a soundtrack in the background which has a very normal relaxing feel to it which adds to the idea of his normal routine in the morning but also has a weird feel to it to sympathise with the weirdness we are all feeling right now. When he starts to put the shower on, a narration starts of his own voice. The narration explains about the phone call and the dream to at this point, make the audience understand what is happening. The voice has no expression to it. It sounds like someone is talking because they have too which can empathise with how he is feeling and what he is thinking. The first scene when he first woke up from the dream is low key lighting portraying that the shadow in the background shows it is either late at night or really early morning. The fact all the light is on the man shows that is what they want all the focus to be on. The rest of the shots are all high key lighting showing its morning and that is normal to him as its not mysterious or weird etc., it is just an everyday routine that most people do in the morning. The film is set in a regular house adding to the effect of the regular theme of routines in this film for example the regular work routine, the regular morning routine and as its set in a regular house makes us understand that the character is in fact regular and normal as well. He isn’t really wearing a costume as he has just woken up and is topless. His hair is a bit messier than it was in the work scene which amplifies that they have done it on purpose to ensure it looks like he has just woken up and wants that messy look. The fact they have shown a person doing a normal routine like a normal person would at the end of the world adds a very weird feel to it as that’s not something you would do if the world is ending, you would expect panic and fear, not someone brushing their teeth and having a shower being really relaxed about it. This tells us about the film that is is all very weird and doesn’t really make sense. It can also tell us about the character that he has always been laid back, but at this point where everyone is dying and he is carrying on like normal can represent him as a bit too laid back and that something weird is going on.

In this section of the short film we are placed with a series of close ups of his routines in the morning. This helps give the audience a better idea of what is going on at this point in the film and getting to know his life better now. They include things like brushing his teeth, making coffee and food, driving places and going on his mobile phone. At this point we just think that he is living normally by the videos we can see and he is living a normal life doing the normal things people do. But then we are introduced to a voice over being said from the characters point of view explaining about how his life went to hell and isn’t the same. This then makes me think about why is he doing all these normal routine things if he is living the hell life in an apocalyptic world. That then gives us loads of enigma codes (questions) about what is happening. The close up of him making food from a can suggests that he doesn’t have an open choice of food to eat like he would of before, and now because of the horrific situation he is in, the only option he has is canned food as he states in his voice over. The close up of the tap going on and him brushing his teeth gives us a bit of a weird feel as he is the only human left in the world and he is still brushing his teeth like he would normally, but the fact he is doing that suggests he wants to pretend that life is normal again and that nothing has happened. And also the fact that he still turned his tap off after putting toothpaste on the brush which is what people normally do to save water, suggests that he wants to carry on as normal as the situation he is in, it doesn’t matter if he is wasting water or not because there is no one else with him in the world he is just alone. All of these shots are high key which suggests it is a nice day and sunny outside and the light is reflecting through the windows in his house, however it does not match the dark dull mood of the film which gives a good interesting contrast of the weirdness that is going on right now. The editing of the film is at quite a fast pace which may reflect the speed of him getting ready, when people take a long time to get ready it normally means they're not going anywhere, but in this case he is getting ready quite fast which highlights he is going somewhere as there is fast cuts from each section of the routine which speeds it up. Towards the end of this scene we are faced with a series of flashbacks which is stated in the voice over about the things he used to do and enjoyed doing, for example the mid shot of him in a car shows he used to go on drives and he cant do that now for a various reason. We are then shown him take out a mobile phone which he presses a button and the voice of his partner comes on which we are familiar with due to the phone call at the beginning of the film but in a different mood, at the normal times when he was at normal work with his normal life and then he talks about how much he misses her in the voice over but at the same time we hear the girl say ‘I miss you’ coming from the message on the phone. When the message has finished, he makes it save on his phone for 3 days which shows the consistency of him listening to it every 3 days to make sure it saves. It will probably make him in a zone where he feels like she is still alive and will make him happy in his unhappy life he is living which then again emphasises the contrast of this film. The sound in this scene consists of a background track behind the voice over which is very soft, slow and chilled out which matches his voice which could show depression in his voice.

In this mid shot, we are shown him walking out his house wearing just a shirt which shows that the weather is nice enough to not have a jacket on. It is high key lighting as he is outside and is bright. It is in the location of his home as we can see clearly as he walks out of it and we are shown it in the background and the mid shot gives us the chance to gain information of the location and the setting of the scene and what he is about to do. He is looking at his car which has the bonnet up which automatically shows something is wrong with it. The voice over then states ‘if only I had the time to get it up and running again’ which shows us that even though he is the only human and he has so much more time now, he still doesn’t have a spare two hours to fix his car, so that gives him no choice but to walk everywhere to try and survive and get food for himself from other empty homes. When he starts to move again we are shown a long shot of him walking away from his home and on his journey. Then we are faced with an interesting shot of a jump cut of him walking down a very long and wide road. He is walking right in the middle of the road because he has no cars to worry about and he looks very chilled out and relaxed by his hands being placed in his jeans pocket. There is voice over and relaxing backing music playing at this stage of him telling the audience he is going to look for some food and it’s a long walk, but then when the voice over stops, the music in the background changes to a more soft slower beat matching the mood and the feel to this scene. We then see a low angle mid shot of him looking up at something and having a smile on his face while looking up. The camera shows a road sign stating prom somerset Dr. poining to a certain direction. The voice over tells the viewers that he went that way yesterday so is going to go the other way. The fact he has a smile on his face shows that he has memories from the road sign or had a good time last time he went down there and the fact hes back there now shows he is happy to be back. There is hardly any music at this stage, just quiet and the voice over which is continuous in this film.

He then reaches a house which we are shown various different types of shots of him searching for food in the house; including a mid shot of him looking at a shelf of different jars and putting some in his bag which invlolves a focus pull in it which makes the shot very interesting, another low angle mid shot of him looking In draws and cupboards and the drawers. This involves a lot of continuity editing with straight cuts. We are then shown a shot from inside the cupboard of him putting his hand in to search which gives us a different perspective to where he is searching and for all different things. The sound includes diegetic sounds of russling through things, searching, coughing but still has the voice over and the very slow non diegetic background music. as he is searching through the cupboards, we are told he has a degree in business which then explains to us why is had such a good job and was very high up in his section but he says it in the type of way where he is confused to why he survived and no one else.

In the final scene, it starts off as an establishing shot of a building which is the outside of a house. It then cuts to inside of the house which the audience can then assume that is is inside of this certain house as we were shown it at the beginning of a sequence. The shot pans up from the bottom to the top giving us a better insight to how many plants are overgrown around the house showing that it hasn’t been looked after very well due to no one being there for such a long period of time. Inside of the house we are shown a shot of dead roses which again emphasise the disaster that has happened and the fact they are dead, again shows the amount of time that he has been alone in the world. Roses connotated love and happiness and the fact they are all dried out and dead shows that his love and happiness has died away and doesn’t exist anymore which tells us that the roses and the character can relate in some way as they are both still there, but do not contain the love and happiness that they used too have. The editing of this section has a slow feel to it as it is coming to an end and wants to show that it is slowly coming to an end, like his life. He bumps into a bag which contains a survival kit which he says in his voice over that no one used to have or need them but not it is exactly what he needs. When he empties the bag, the music becomes faster and more tense to build the tension towards the ending. He picks up a gun, spends a few seconds looking at it, but puts it down because he doesn’t need it as no one else is about, just him. He then picks up money which used to be a vital part of life, but now he says its only useful for making a fire which suggests the drastic change in his life and life in general and how much it has changed. We are then shown a time lapse of him searching through a room and putting stuff in his bag but it sped up to make the shot more interesting to look at. The music in the background at this point is getting louder and faster as he is walking home in the dark as its quite a scary situation he is in and creates a lot of tension towards the audience. Right at the end of the film, the voice over is talking about how he is alone and there is no danger, when suddenly a light switches on in a house and the character looks very fast in shock with his mouth wide open as if to say he cant believe what he just saw. We are left on a very big, tense cliff hanger.

Narrative of ‘Alone’

This film is set out in the circular structure as it starts off as a flashback to where the film all started. It shows him living his normal life and towards the end of this flashback is where all the action and disaster happened for example he was at work at a normal day and then he got a phone call from his partner telling him that everyone is dying then he wakes up as a dream, and the story begins from there.