The Inside Man (UK, 2006, Spike Lee)

Mise en Scene

There is direct address used, and it shows that the character is quite confident as he uses eye contact. It also gives him an evil look to him and the audience could get the idea that this character is the antagonist in the film. His evil look is reinforced by the black background. We associate that colour with fear and death which could symbolise that this character could be a criminal. Also it withholds information to where about this character is. The audience are most like to ask questions about his location.

There is low key lightning used to emphasise the fact that this character could be a twisted, dark character in the film. We get the impression that he is in an isolated location as there is just a solid brick wall behind this could suggest that he is shut off from society. Furthermore his costume is dark, as well as his hair, we associate dark clothes as being the 'villain' in the film and in this case all of these clues through the use of mise en scene has implied that. Also there is no expression on his face this could imply that he is hiding something and can be quite sneaking. So mise en scene has put negative thoughts about this character for the audience.

Cinematography

 The medium close up reveals a glimpse of the costume that he is wearing and shows that there is no expression on his face, so it foreshadows this character as being the antagonist in the film and it reinforces the fact that he could be crafting and hiding something or his true personality.

There are a series of shots of this vehicle. The first long shot shows us the van parked waiting for something. We also are able to see the setting in the background, so we can see the type of location it is. The background shows us big, tall skyscrapers so perhaps this van is on the outskirts of the big city. But would ask questions such as what is it this van is waiting for?

The director has chosen this shot deliberately as this person looks as if he is waiting for the van and is out of focus to hide his identity. It has the van in focus, and the opening sequence keeps wanting us to keep attention on this van. It implies to the audience that this van could be suspicious. The audience asks questions such as where is this van going to?

Sound

The character uses dialogue of 'executing the perfect bank robbery', revealing that he is the antagonist in the film and has set out an evil plot. It shows that he is a confident character but for the wrong reasons, the audience go against the character as what he is planning on doing is unacceptable.

There is a backing track which is non diegetic of quite a cultural atmosphere. This could reveal that it is a cultural film or in a cultural setting. 

The non diegetic sound starts of as a sting which shows it's introducing a character. It then becomes incidental music which is slowly building up implying that this character could be mischievous and is it builds up we would expect something quite threatening at then of the incidental sound.









Editing
There is a cut from the character using direct address to him in the tiny prison cell. We do not know as an audience why he is in a prison. The tiny cell shows that he is isolated and looks as if he has been there for a long time. There is jump cuts from him reading a book to writing and then to doing push ups, showing that there is limited things to do in that cell which could show that this character is looking forward to be getting out of prison.


There are jump cuts from the one area where a vehicle is to the next on a motorway and cuts from a person getting in a vehicle. This shows that it wants us the focus on this vehicle and implies that there is something not right with this van and could be suspicious. We as an audience begin to ask why is the van picking up these people and why does the director want us to focus on this van?