KILL BILL

The interesting camera angles that particularly grabbed my attention:

• Close up face shots are very effective as it’s making it all about that character, also it emphasises the emotion the character is feeling.
• At the beginning of the movie, there is a close up of the woman’s face and a wandering hand, you cannot see who the hand belongs to. This works really well and is effective due to the fact that it keeps the audience guessing and makes them want to continue watching.
• There were a few camera angles where you could only see the characters outline and around them was complete darkness. This gave a very mysterious feel, almost creepy. It also creates a very tense atmosphere, keeping the audience glued for what’s about to happen next.
• There is a close up shot of a finger on a doorbell; I personally felt that this suggested that it was going to be a big and quite important scene. It turned out to be that exactly, a very tense fighting scene that had a lot of relevance to the story.
• After this fighting scene took place the camera focused on her feet walking back through the smashed glass all over the floor, the sound of her carefully treading backwards through the glass made the scene very tense.
• There is one point at the beginning of the movie where the camera is set over two rooms, bird’s eye view. It was very effective but also made me as the audience feel I had to concentrate as there was more to focus on.

I then looked in to the clips that created tension and suspense:
 

• The first scene is a woman heavily breathing and it’s being filmed in complete darkness. For the audience, it’s exciting, keeps them watching as they want to know who it is, and why there heavily breathing.
• Footsteps slowly getting louder creates tension, keeps the audience gripped.
• A wandering voice, the camera is not actually on the character speaking, this gives a very mysterious feel; it also creates suspense, where is the voice coming from? Who is it?
• There is a gunshot then the opening credits follow, its unexpected.
• The music is tense during the fighting scenes, keeps the audience interested. The music makes the fighting scenes seem so much more exciting as the music really emphasises the tension between the two characters.
• People whispering rather than speaking aloud, creates a tense atmosphere as it gives a secretive feel.
• The pace of the movie is generally quite fast, the fighting scenes are quick and tense, and the music really shows this.