Nine-frame Analysis (LA Confidential)

LA Confidential

1)    Wide shot which is establishing the setting which gives us a lot of information about the scene. It is also panning while following the character. This introduces you to the first character as we are following them into a building.

2)    Over the shoulder shot, which introduce more characters and makes you feel like you are in the room. This shot emphasizes a small room and shows you a man held captive. This suggests to the audience that it is a dangerous situation.

3)    Wide shot which introduces you to the man you were originally stood behind. This gives the audience the identity of this man and a face to a voice. This shot is used to show all of the characters in the room so the audience can see that the man on the chair is vulnerable compared to the other men.

4)    Close Up to show the characters facial expressions and to focus on what he is about to say. This gives the audience a chance to see what emotions this vulnerable character has when being questioned by another character.

5)    Medium Close Up to show the other characters reaction to what the vulnerable character said. This shows the facial expression of the character and their action to their answer.

6)    Over the shoulder shot which shows you the action of the man (punching him across the face). This suggests to the audience that they are in a room of violence as a character is punching his victim, as they didn’t like his answer. This shows that the characters are in no position to cooperate with one another.

7)    Low angle shot, which shows the action of the punch. This shows the expression of the character punching and the victim’s reaction of the violent punch. This could make the audience sympathize the vulnerable character because he is being violated.  

8)    Close Up shows the facial expression from a character after the violent punch. This shows the audience the expression of pain on the characters face.

9)    Low angle shot shows the character’s reaction to the punch and it also shows the intimidating look of violence on the other mans face. This could suggest to the audience that this character could be violated even more.

10) Low angle close up shows the mans feet moving from the extreme force from the violent punch. This shows that the punch was not light as it was a forceful punch. This suggests that the punch was to purposely inflict pain to the vulnerable character.