Elephant

This film starts with a long shot of the sky with the clouds moving this is to show time moving as it starts of in day time and ends at night time. After you have watched the whole film you discover this was showing you that the film takes place in one day.
There is then a tracking shot of a car moving through the town and the camera follows it carefuly moving with the car so when the car is swirving you can tell the person driving is probably drunk.There is then a close up shot of John this introduces him as a main character.

This film uses a lot of tracking shots and these are mainly of the chracters backs so its like your following them. For exmaple there is a very long tracking shot of Nathan as he walks from the sports feild into the school and walks through the halls. As we only see his back for most of this it makes you a bit suspisous of him like maybe he is up to something.There is also a tracking shot of John walking through the school.

There is also an interesting part where Alex is in the cafeteria and there is diegetic sound of the rest of the studants talking this then continues to get louder and louder like the pressure is building up on Alex. For me this was the first time that i thought that Alex was up to something.

There is a point of view shot of Eric playing a video game that is of shooting people this also gives you clue as to what Alex and Eric are planing to do.

I like the way that this film is filmed because it goes through the same event of that day leading up to the shooting in different characters points of view. This is good because we get to know the characters and this has more impact when they die, where as if we just saw the day through Eric and Alex's point of view it wouldnt be so shocking when the people die cause they would just be random people that we didnt know.Also when the characters are introduced their names are shown this also helps you feels like you know them.

The costumes in this film are just casual clothes as its set in a school. i noticed that two of the characters Nathan and Michelle were wearing red tops this to me made them stand because they were wearing a bright colour.

The lighting is mostly all natural because it is set in a school and outside on the sports feild.

This film is quite slow moving becuase it takes you through the same events this makes you relaxed and a bit confused about what going on really, but when the shooting begins it all happens so fast this makes it more like oh my god whats just happened.

The film ends the same way it starts with the clouds moving through the sky showing time is passing again.