This is an extreme long shot to introduce the audience to the setting. This shot shows the audience that they are in a barren landscape and there is no one there to help, this puts the mood on edge even as the film has only just started.
This is a long shot, this shot type is used in order to show the characters in their setting. Their backs are to the audience, which adds mystery as you can see that one is definitely a sheriff, and the other is clearly a "bad guy" but the audience can't see who he is. Steriotypically the audience would think that the sheriff is most powerful, but in this scene both the characters are the same height, making neither more powerful. This frightens the audience as they are now aware that the "bad guy" could be capable of quite a lot.
This is a close up shot of a compressor, the reason that it is a close up is to show the audience that it is an object of importance and that it takes up most of the frame. Also this shot has been composed using the golden mean, with all of the parts of the compressor appearing down the imaginary "line", again expressing the importance of this object.
This shot is a mid shot showing the character in his setting. The Mysterious villain is behind bars again, telling the audience that he is dangerous but still hiding his identity. This shot has all been composed so that the villain is sat in the shadows and the sheriff is in the light expressing his authority and that he is the "good guy"
This is a long shot to show the area that the characters are in. This shot looks as if they are on the road to nowhere, as the landscape is very bleak.. This makes the audience feel the tension as the characters are so alone, what would happen if something went wrong?
This shot is composed to only show straight down the road and slightly to the side, almost as a point of view from the car or the driver, this gives the effect that they are just trying to get somewhere and that the landscape of the journey isn't nearly as important as the destination.
This is a mid shot of the sheriff on the phone. The shot is composed with him in the middle of the frame as he is supposed to be the audiences focus point, there is also a figure standing behind him, but slightly to the side- this gives him his own bit of focus even though he is at the back this foreshadows that is the dominant character ad has the capability to take over anything. This creates tension as the audience can see what is going on behind him but he can't, the sheriff has his head held high because he is used to being right and being in charge, but this is going to be turned upside down - which makes the audience more wherry of the character they still haven't met. The lighting in this shot shows the mysterious and dangerous character in the back, and the sheriff in the light to symbolize his authority, just like they did in the scene where they were in the sheriff's car.
This shot is seen at floor angle, so the audience can see the struggle but it isn't as violent as it good be. The effect that this has on the audience is that it becomes very chaotic as the audience can't see much of what is happening which puts emphasis on the struggle.
This shot gives the audience a birds eye view of the action, and the expression on the characters faces. This shot also shows the audience the villain for the first time, when he is proving how dangerous he is and his dominance over everything. The composition of this shot shows the characters head almost in a diagonal line from each other, which tells the audience that they are both as important in these scene because they don't know who is going to win the struggle. The birds eye view also allows the audience to see more emotion, more of the struggle and more of the violence.
This shot is a close up on the key character, he has finally been properly introduced the audience. He has gone from the shadowy mysterious character to someone who is clearly a villain and the audience has seen what he is capable of.
This is a birds eye view shot so that the audience can observe exactly what the villain is doing, possibly in order to understand what he does. His character is cool, calm and collected, the birds eye view doesn't allow the audience to see him, just his after effects. The fact that he stays so calm shows that he must have done it before. The shot is composed with the handcuffs in the middle making it clear to the audience that he is now free, making the audience worried for what he could do next. his bloodied wrists are placed diagonally either side of the handcuffs, as they are also important features to this shot; it shows the audience just how much pain he is willing to go through in order to kill.
This is another birds eye view shot, to again show the effects or the villains actions. This shot shows exactly how much of a struggle it was for the sheriff. The struggle marks imply that the villain doesn't care how much of a struggle situations are, he will finish what he started and kill.. This un-nerves the audience because this is only the start of his killings, where does he stop?
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