My final draft

Film Language - Boyz in the hood




Mise En Scene


  • Casual Gang member clothing
  • Black American actors in their late 20's 
  • Set in American town at night time with low lighting around the streets
  • Actors in the car carrying guns
  • Big american cars 
  • Fancy jewellery being worn by the actors
  • Scene starts off harmless until a car of more Black actors pull up next to the starting actors
  • Starting actors stop off and begin eating and sharing jokes

Sound

  • Offscreen, slow music played in the background.
  • Contrapuntal music as the scene is harmless even though the audience can see a murder being planned in the background.
  • Music fades away when the car begins to come closer.
  • Music completely fades out when the sound of a fully auto gun being fired comes into the frame.
  • Audio gain once the killing has taken place, music gets slower and more dramatic.

Camera

  • Scene starts with a tracking mid-shot of the actors in the car.
  • Mid-shot taken while actors are sitting eating.
  • Long-shot of when 3 Black guys pull up in their car 
  • Long-shot of men running out of frame
  • Tracking shot of the drive-by shooting right to left
  • Close-up shot of actors face who carried out the murders

Editing

  • Slow-motion of gun being fired and bullets penetrating the men.
  • Slow-motion of bodies falling to the floor.