Momento (Nolan, 2000, US)

There is diegetic sound of the shutter speed of the camera and when you can see the picture visually the audience can get an insight of the type of character the man is and he is portrayed as a horrible person. This is emphasised by the Incidental sound of the distinctive, mysterious background music as the shots rewind of the character killing a vulnerable man. Moreover, there is incidental music which is non diegetic at the beginning of the opening sequence. The incidental music is the use of slow played violins. This creates quite a sombre atmosphere and mood for the audience. Although there isn't much being showed on the screen the audience can predict that the scene is quite sad.

The editing of the shots are shown in reverse. This creates mystery and the director has done this so that the audience has to focus to work things out. The beginning of the editing starts off as slow paced over a long duration of time and there is no cut between his action of shaking the picture. This is to gradually build up tension as the editing eventually builds up pace in reverse where there is action within the frame as everything comes together of the character shooting the man.

There are a range of close ups and extreme close ups within the opening sequence. The first close up is the character looking at the picture, the audience get a sense that this character is horrible and we get the impression that he is a psychopath as he has taken a picture of a helpless dead man. The audience don't necessarily ask who did this but in fact why did he do this?

This extreme close up shows the victim's blood and it implies that he was brutally killed. The blood is running down the surface which showed that this was a recent attack. The audience could start asking questions for instance why did the character do this?

The close up of the glasses could suggest that the man who was killed was vulnerable and harmless or perhaps innocent. We also associate glasses as being smart so we could get the idea that this victim was quite intelligent and could imply that he was quite successful in life but now all of that has been wasted as he got killed at a younger age.

The close up of the bullet shows that this was what killed the victim. The bullet looks clean and there is no blood in the frame this could show that the bullet has power over everything else and is acts as if it is important and the victim should've respected this man in order to have saved his life.

The  medium close up shows the dead man with the blood splattered everywhere, once again this shows that the man was violently killed. This is also a high angle shot which implies that this man was innocent, vulnerable and powerless.

The low angle shot of the character reveals that he had a higher status and more power than the dead man however we do not know the relationship between him and the victim. The audience would start to ask questions as to why the character murdered this man.