Walk on the wild side
Camera
The director starts the first scene with a mid shot of guttering tube with the cat’s eyes. Zooming in on the tube we get a close up of the cat and the camera pans around it. Introducing us to the main character, the cat, the director has chosen his shots to give us a good look of the cat. Tracking the cat’s movements, the director uses a high angled shot to show us the cat’s good posture. The director has used his shots to show the cat to be powerful. He then shows us the cat with a low angle shot to show us the cats strut as it walks, reiterating that it is powerful. Always using mid shots and close ups of the cat the director wants the audience to recognise that the cat is going to be powerful in his film. The camera gives us a bird’s eye view of the cat and when the cats fight it looks down on the cats to give the audience the best view of the fight.
Editing
Using a variety of cuts throughout the opening scene the director is aiming to give us a full view of the cat and to make it look very dominant. He chooses his cuts and shots carefully to make sure that not only do the audience see the high angle of the cat’s posture but also low angle shots to show it’s strut as well. The scene is very dark making the cat look even more powerful as its strutting about at night.
Mese en sene
As the director wants to show the cat to be powerful there isn’t a great deal of props in the cat’s way as he wants us to see the cat strutting. There are a lot of pipes and fencing in the shot but as it’s black and white in this scene we don’t see anything else.
Sound
The director has the cat walk along parallel to the music to emphasise its strut even more. When close up shots of the cat are shown the music becomes stronger again showing that the cat is strong. The music works well with the cat as it is easy to strut along to and makes it seem like the cat is purposely moving with the music.