True Romance Opening scene

True Romance opening analysis.

Camera Composition:  The establishing shot is of a bar at medium shot. During the first few clips, We are introduced to a medium  shot of a man drinking in the bar, and the camera stays there whilst other characters are introduced, however the next clip is of a panning shot, which close up and ''walks'' around the character whilst he is interacting with another. The next clip is a focus shot, where the foreground is blurred slightly ( in this case, bottles or glasses hanging ) and we can see the man's face clearly, so that he is highlighted in the background. Following there there are couple more shots which change from medium to close up, when the character isn't talking the camera is further away, but when he begins to talk the camera then introduces the audience again. There are some shots which slightly try and mimic an over the shoulder shot, but because there are people talking to each other by sitting next to each other, the camera simply just follows a 180 degree rule and keeps on changing angles when each character introduces a sentence. These shots keep changing from medium to close for a big chunk of the opening scene, until suddenly the camera introduces a low angle shot, which is generally to make a character seem more important and high in power, and then goes back to an eye level shot.

Sound: Firstly, there is non diegetic sound introduced, with happy music playing, until eventually the music fades into the background and then the music changes into diegetic sound, as if it was playing in the Bar where the scene is set.There is a lot of diegetic sound, to start off with, we are introduced to the characters talking to each other, and in the background you can hear what you would typically hear in a bar, glasses clashing together and other diegetic sounds being played in the background, but the character's voice is highlighted through everything. when the camera gets closer the the main character we can hear other diegetic sounds a lot better, because the camera wants to place the audience in the characters spot. 

Mise en scene: The settings are in the bar. there are a lot of props through this opening scene, most of them range from bottles, to televisions being played in the background. however there are some other main props which the camera includes a lot, such as a cigarette being smoked by one of the characters, and a man drinking a beer bottle. Most of the clothes which the characters are wearing are quite upper class, especially the actress, she is wearing very posh clothing, such as animal fur and skin, which is very expensive, with lipstick and very large odd looking earrings. However on the other hand the man is wearing pretty average looking clothing, suggesting he is middle class, but he is still dressed smartly, but not posh, e.g. a tuxedo.