Thriller Opening 4 - Pulp Fiction - Harrison Blake

This is the opening (only to 4:34 as music has been placed and is not original)

Camera Work
-The camera work in the intro to Pulp Fiction is fairly basic, the majority of the time it is a two shot on both the male and the female.

-As well as the two shots, there are quite a lot of over the shoulder shots and close ups on both the characters.

-Even when another character comes into the scene, they are shown as nothing valuable to the shot as their face is only shown for a second, then it's straight back onto the man and woman. 
-When they both stand up at the end of the scene there is a low angle on both of them, showing the male as a bigger person who is more dominant.


Sound
-Whilst the man and woman are sitting in the booth talking about robbery's and how they could potentially rob the restaurant that they are sitting in, there is calm, diagetic music being played in the restaurant which contradicts the mood of what the two are talking about.
-The most prominent sound throughout the scene is their dialogue, what they're talking about is what the director is wanting the viewer to have their attention on.
-There is also the foley sounds of everything that they are doing, drinking, banging on the table and the cars in the background.
-When the woman stands up and shouts, we see that she isn't the nice and calm woman that she is made out to be when the two are talking at the start of the intro, and that in fact she is crazy and is not afraid to shout infront of people and be overly aggressive. 


Editing
-Throughout the opening there are a lot of shot/reverse shot sequences which comply with and don't break the 180 degree rule.

-When the titles come up (at the end when the two stand up to rob the restaurant) the image freezes to a still and the titles show, this makes us start to realise that this may not have happened yet, and that it's going to pause to take us back to the start of the film where we see what has happened before.


Mise en Scene
-The lighting in this scene is used well, it clearly shows that the light coming through the window is genuine as the side of his face that is next to the window is lit up, whereas the side that is not next to the window has shadow on it.
-The clothes that they are wearing would suggest that there is nothing special about them, they are just normal people and no one would think any differently of them if they walked past.
-The man is smoking, smoking is usually a trait that a villain owns in many films.