How does the opening of Essex boys use metaphorical spaces to create meaning?

 In this shot the bar like reflections of light on the glass presents Billy (the shown character) as being entrapped, the image also foreshadows Billy's future ending up in prison, connoting eternal conflict on the other side of the justice system. Though the other character in the background is barely shown it displays a power imbalance, with one character relaxed and slouching in the back and the other tense and focused.

The bleak expanse of the marshes connotes a metaphorical space of emptiness and loneliness, with a grey colour pallet arraying a melancholic location. The location of the mashes also insinuates a place of danger in the view that their are many deaths which happen in this land setting, this shows that within the region Essex's morality is reflected through the uses of the rejected land. Furthermore, the vanishing lines create different angles giving a disorientation of view and exaggerating the expanse of the marshes.

The onscreen vanishing point of this shot outlines the near coming of Essex, the for coming location. The bleak, grey colour pallet connotes the entering of the mundane setting of Essex Furthermore, the entering of the dismal sky shows the inevitable route to sorrowing events the anti-hero is about to face. Changing his morality for the worst, with the shot as a whole being a metaphor for Billy leaving his previous life behind, entering new life with no good and crime.

  
The claustrophobic space within this shot connotes that the character as being trapped within the upcoming events, having no option but to participate in them.

Se7en Conventions of Noir

Within my own production I could use conventions from se7en, such as the ticking metronome and the busy urban city sounds. Techniques such as these establish the environment the film is set in furthermore, with both contrasting sounds connotes the relationship the character has to his environment. The character Detective Summersets is surrounded with unease and chaos of the noise around him, trying to block out the madness with the metronome. The clever uses of sound used to establish the characters relationship to their environment could be an influence to the opening of my own production.

How does the sewer scene in The Third Man use mis en scene to create meaning?



In this shot matrices are used to create a sense of entrapment with the use of high angles and diagonal lines connoting the loss power and perpetuating a sense of fear. The winding of the staircase suggests disorientation and confusion, this could be a metaphor for power and how the character is desperately trying to escape. 

                              

The extreme long shot emphasises the isolation within the sewer, this arrays a common theme in film noir of a male anti-hero character, foreshadowing the isolation and secrecy within post war society. The character in the shot is displayed as small in comparison to the surroundings, this exaggerates the characters vulnerability to what he is hiding from. 



     

   

Matrices are also used in this image, with the use of diagonal lines creating confusion. The geometry encloses the character into the setting creating a maze like setting, causing a metaphorical claustrophobia being stuck in the space. Furthermore, the large shadow emphasises the protagonists evil side being the character which absorbs the most space within the shot.

     

 




In one of the final shots of the sewer scene chiaroscuro is used to silhouette the character, to present their darker side however still surrounding the character through a tunnel of darkness. The stable onscreen vanishing point brings a concluded end to the manic action previous.