Memento (Nolan, 2000, US)

At the start of the clip the music is very low, it makes us feel as an audience that something isn't quite right about the scene. I personally thought listening to the beginning and not actually visually watching it that it was in black and white and it was going back to the past because of the tone of the music, I was pretty close. The music stays very slow paced for the time the killer has the photograph in his hand. However when the killer puts the photograph back into his camera the music changes into a more dominating bit of music which makes me feel that someone is in control. The music then stops and the sound then comes from the pieces of equipment then returning back to the original places. For example the glasses return onto the victims face and the bullet returns in to the gun which is used to kill the victim. There is Hyperbolic sound when the equipment return, this is because the sound is over dramatic and louder than it normally would be in a real life scenario.



At the beginning of the clip it has a long scene of a man holding a picture which shows us the scene of a murder which had took place. We as an audience can tell this by the blood which is splattered up the wall. This suggests that it was a violent confrontation which ended in somebody getting murdered ,  with the amount of blood it shows us that the person who has been shot got shot in in the head because of the direction the blood went. When the killer puts the photograph back into the camera the director doesn't want to show us the killer straight away he wants the tension of not knowing what the killer looked like for a bit longer. When the man then moves the camera away from his face is when we first see what the killer looks like with an extreme close up of his face. We can tell by the killer having cuts on his face that the victim fought back against the killer and that there wasn't only a shooting there was punching and a struggle as well. When the bullet and glasses rewind then us as a audience then realise that the director is playing the scene in reverse, so then we can see what actually happened as an audience. Then there's a medium shot of the man shooting the victim.