Practice Essay "How do the film elements in the first 5 minutes of Agent"

 

Agent Carter's five-minute sequence incorporates several aspects of the film, including sound, angles/shots, editing, and mise-en-scene. To begin, let's discuss sound. Post-synchronized dubbing is used seconds after the movie starts. The two characters' discussion is placed on a Marvel character cartoon filmstrip. Diegetic sound is also used in the opening scene when the office alarm goes off and the man answers the phone to listen to the emergency recording. A nondiegetic sound is introduced when the businessmen move up the stairs. In this scenario, we can hear the music, but the characters couldn't have heard it while filming. Then Agent Carter fights off all of the attackers (grunting and punching), and this is an example of direct sound when the character screams for help. Following that, I focused on camera angles and various types of images. Throughout the five-minute action, the most of the images were taken at eye level, with the exception of a couple. A point of view shot is revealed when the man is on the phone and looks down at the piece of paper. To gain a clear idea of what he's looking at, we see the paper via "his eyes." After removing her significant other's photograph off her desk, carter holds it in her hands in another point of view shot. A high angle shot is briefly shown when Agent Carter compels one of her victims to kneel down on the ground and shackles him to a pipe. In this brief moment in which the viewpoint is recorded from above, the guy appears small, which is essential since he is small at the time because he has no authority and is completely controlled by Agent Carter. Some editing techniques were also found in the Agent Carter short clip. A cut occurs when the scene shifts to a year later, however this cut is also a fade because the colors fade away and the screen goes dark. Another editing process is demonstrated in the five-minute film when Agent Carter is speaking with the man piloting the spaceship. The filming switches between the two characters to create suspense. Another type of editing that can be seen when the alarm goes off is leitmotif. Even while leitmotif sound is typically nondiegetic, it is in this case because the audience and characters are all aware that when the alarm goes off, a crime is in progress that demands special assistance. Finally, I recognized elements of Mise-en-scene in the Agent Carter clip. Agent Carter is at her office as the scenario in this film begins. We can tell that none of the men take Agent Carter seriously because she is a woman, as proven by the scene change at the gas station where Agent Carter is knocking them out one by one. Throughout the video, low-key lighting is used to create a sensation of suspension and tension. This illumination is especially crucial when agent carter is at the gas station, trying to get past all of the males in her way.