No Country for Old Men

This introduces the setting by use of a montage. It is showing that it is a baron wasteland. There isn’t any movement apart from the fading. The frames are still as if it was a photo. This shows to the audience that the setting of the film is going to be a little bit wired. The fact that there are no people in the shots makes us feel as if there is no witnesses to what is about to happen. This makes the feeling of venerability and danger. With the narration over the top of this it makes the audience confused as if we have missed a bit of the story. This is where it drops you in the middle of the action.

 

This is an establishing shot showing the landscape this is very similar to the montage but this pans across which the others didn’t. This is also showing the land in which the sheriff is talking about. The baron waste land makes the sheriff look like he has a hard job having to keep such a large area under control. The shots that have been on the screen previously show no people this indicates to the audience that there would be no witnesses to a crime that may happen in the land and would make the sheriffs job all that much harder.

This is a long shot after panning round from the previous shot. This is the part in which the audience ask questions such as: What is going on? Or Who are these characters? We can see immediately that one of the characters is a main part in the story but at the moment we are unsure. We knew a sheriff was speaking but we are unsure whether the man in the police attire is the man who was narrating. The man that is all in black is strange as the police man is in short sleeves and the man in black is in a coat. The characters are only taking up a small part of the shot, this is done this way to reinforce the fact of it being a desert and there being no witnesses.

The close up of the ‘captive bolt’ and ‘canister’ adds another element of mystery to the film. I had to look up what the apparatus was because if you are not a farmer you probably wouldn’t know what it was. This is obviously a key part to the story and we don’t know what it is used for at this moment in  time this is making us as the audience sus out that the man In black probably is the main character.  

This is an effective shot because the police man is reaching into his car and he is lit up and we still can’t see his face at the moment. And the bad guy is in the back in darkness and we cannot see his face either this makes us conclude that the man in the back is a bad guy and he is shady.This tells the audience that there is going to be an element of mystery to him throughout the film.