The Matrix

Mise-En- Scene

• Black suits worn by men, looking professional
• Green Filter over the shots, like viewing the film through an old fashioned computer screen.
• Black Glasses are very secretive and also proffessional.
• Slow motion action, building up the tention - conventional to a thriller
• Dark room, with low lighting, like a cellar, this makes it seem like a police investigation and very dark and eerie.
• Rubbish on the floor
• Smashing of the light falling onto the floor, breaks the tension of the fighting.... conventional to a thriller.
• Blowing of a newspaper across the floor, like tumbelweed in America, this adds a sense of loneliness and apandement of this location, like a haunted house, no one wants to go there.

Camera Shots

• Mid-shot of man in suit wearing glasses, very intense expression on his face.
• Three shot of three men walking through the door, very powerful.
• In the Three shot, the men spred out and cover the whole screen, very dominating
• Extreme close up of the man standing in the middle which leads into a master shot of the room as the man in the middle is attacking the man originally in the room - conventional to a thriller with fighting
• Zooming into the action of the fighting, focusing of the punches and kicking
• Combination of over the shoulder shots between the two men fighting.
• Birds eye view shot of man lieing on floor after being thrown in the fight.
• Extreme Close-up of the glass light smashing.

Editing

• Straight Cuts between the shots, conventional to a Thriller as are very simple, and realistic continuity