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Tea Essay 

Zeke Morales 

Media Studies 6 

After watching this movie clip, I get an immediate feeling of suspense and can safely say that this was most likely the director's intent during filming. I caught myself really focusing on the characters emotions throughout who played the part well and had me as a viewer wondering what would come next. Besides the actors, other key elements came into play that went hand in hand to help develop that theme of suspense and thrill. From the lighting to the camera positions, they all came as one and worked together nicely.  

Moving throughout the clip, the opening scene starts with man walking through the door with an angry expression across his face. Some of the most obvious things that pop up immediately is where the scene is about to take place. From a viewer's perspective, we can see a woman sat down in a dark and small room which looks to have nothing inside accept a small camera in the corner and a metal table where the woman is seated at. An eye level shot exchanged between characters gives the viewers a taste of the emotion building up inside of each of the characters. The silence is then broken with a sound motif associated with the man which makes it obvious that he’s bad news. Other than that, one piece of sound, the rest of this scene is completely silent, and we have nothing to focus on but the stare between the man and the woman. These pieces come together to ensure the theme of the clip till the end. 

This next scene starts us off with the man walking closer to the table and laying the prop of the scene, the papers, on the table in front of the seated down woman. The stare is broken when she looks down to what seems to be some documents. Dialogue between the characters is starting to fill the silence. The conversation sounds dark with no enthusiasm. Their conversation is ominous which continues towards the suspense. A short cut to what seems to be outside the room is inserted which confirms that the camera in the room is watching the two almost as the people outside are expecting something bad to happen. Almost immediately after, the stubborn conversation between the two escalates when the man throws the metal table to the side screaming to the top of the lungs. This gets the heart pumping and plays well with the thrill. The camera is all over the place trying to highlight the emotion from both and what they might be thinking. The scene reverts back to the silent stairs and exchange of emotion between the pair. The suspense builds again like something is about to happen. 

Our theory from the last scene was immediately answered moving forward. The pumping blood spikes once more as a sudden outbreak from the man sets him off to their he grabs the woman by the neck and slams her against the wall. The camera angle highlights the fear from the women's face and switches quickly to a split screen. We can see the onlookers on one side of the screen rushing to her aid as she gasps for air while the man squeezes his fingers around her throat. The volume of the music raises, and a fast song fills our ears. The fast music worked in correlation with the running detectives who once made it, banged on the door insisting to let them in. The split screen allowed the viewers to watch what was happening on both sides of the door working with the thriller aspect and suspense of what the man may do next to her. All the commotion stops as soon as the men get through the door. Everything went back to normal in terms of the speed of the clip except the coughing we can hear from the woman in the background. This scene was important towards building the thriller/ suspenseful theme and left viewers with there hearts pumping as the clip ends. 

We can see from a viewers perspective throughout that all the camera angles, editing, and mis en scene came together to form a specific theme. The theme of suspenseful thriller was not hard to figure out as all of the scenes of the clip orked towards building it. The directors vision before us worked well with the theme and it projected well from his head to screen.