Wallander

The first 4 shots of Wallander tells the audience what has happened straight away. The first shot is an establishing shot of where these event are taken place. It zooms in towards a car and two girls walking away from it. The second shot show the two girls backs who could be perfectly ordinary however it is interesting as you can not see there faces and is very ambiguous. The next shot you see the next shot of a man in a car with blood everywhere. This shot creates loads of questions and the audience assumes that the two girls have tried to murder him. In this shot the camera is focused on the blood and his taxi card which shows us who he is and what has happened to him. The sequence uses bright colours like red and green which contrast with each other and make the sequence feel different.

These two extreme close ups show that the man is still alive by slight twitches he does. This creates tension as it makes the audience want to know what is going to happen although it makes them feel weird as they feel scared for the two girls even though they have just tried to kill him. Other shots in the taxi show different things about the man which makes us feel sorry for him as we learn more about him and get clues as to why they girls had done what they did.

The title Wallander does not give much away about the film. You find out that it is the name of the main character. The title sequence is shows a black background with what seems like random bits of yellow but as it develops it turns into the title. The yellow and black are shocking and could symbolise a crime scene as it is the colours of tape that you see at crime scenes. It also has many sharp angles which could represent the sharp knife that one of the girls dropped.

The sound in this sequence is very important. The beginning the audience hears a sort of humming which sounds like the wind. This gets slightly louder as the camera tracked towards the land. This is a low residence (echo) sound that is similar to jaws and other thriller films which connotates danger and fear. The sound is getting louder and faster which makes it feel as if we are zooming in even though it is tracking in. Before the credits are shown there is not much sound only the wind, slight music from inside the taxi and the girls breathing. After the credits the same area has much more noise from the police, people talking and birds in the background. I think this whole sequence was good as all the shots are beautifully composed and interests the audience.