44 inch chest - Meg

The opening two minutes of this sequence raises a lot of questions to us as an audience...

Camerawork
-The focus pull at the beginning creates mystery by having a slow reveal which then turns out to be smashed glass. This then goes with the whole sequemce because you're slowly shown different parts of the destruction.
-Close up of the characters face for ages makes the spectator feel uncomfortable and awkward because it's very close to his face. This is to give the overall feel and show the detail on his face. This also relates to the first point because at first you think he's a body until he finally blinks.

-The tracking shot around the corner is used as a kind of blocking/wipe, which hides the whole picture and shows it to you very slowly, and then reveals a body on the floor. This is done to anticipate and shock you.

Mise En Scene
-The house is trashed, could be a metaphor for his life being shattered too?

-goods broken, shows violence of the movie
-the door in the background is open, could it have been a break in and they escaped through the window?
-communicates the feeling of the film, destruction, violence
-the man himself is sweaty and shook up. He's also lying lifeless on the floor in the middle of the room.
-the house looks like a posh modern flat, with a flat screen TV and expensive furniture. It's an opposite to the man who's sitting in an old-fashioned living room with his mum who's eating soup.
-There's a little feminine poodle hiding away, not the type of dog you'd expect a man like the one on the floor to have. Could raise questions that it's not his?

Editing
-The title comes up between the two scenes, and is just black with white writing in the middle. There is also a line underneath that resembles a measurement of an inch?

-The camerawork is used as a wipe, to make us anticipate what is coming around the corner
-continuity editing used well.
-Slow cuts build tension. Considering the mise en scene, you would expect face paced shots but he seems calm about his house being trashed. The number of cuts is quite small as well, and this sequence isn't action packed.

Sound
The sound could be either parallel or contrapuntal music, and it depends on why the house is trashed, so this is making us ask questions and create a weird mystery about the opening sequence. The music goes 'All By Myself' so it's a love song, but the images on screen make us think that he's been burgled, so the music would seem contrapuntal. This would intensify the violence of the scene. It can be interpreted in another way that he himself has trashed the house over a woman and is now lying in the mess. This would make sense of why the dog is there too. There are also diegetic sounds of dialogue and the news on TV, but for the most part there is no dialogue.