Film Openings - Brick

  Another film opening we analysed was Brick, a film which centres on a detective story. The title refers to a block of heroin, squeezed in such a way that it's size and shape resembled that of a brick's:

  There was one main convention in the film opening: the dead body. The camera angles are also mostly close up shots. This meant that the audience didn't get to see who the dead person was (although the high heels imply it was a girl). However the audience did manage to see someone watching over the dead body, which brings questions to mind such as "Why is he just watching?" and, "How did this happen?".
  There were few edits, (so shots were quite long) which allowed the audience absorb the scene and perhaps encourage them to look for clues (to no avail). The non diegetic sound was slow, gloomy music, to match what was happening on screen (a dead body being shown). Then later, mise en scene showed lockers, like what would be seen in a school, and the diegetic sound was that of a bell ringing and the sound of many schoolchildren, which implies that many of the characters involved in the story are all relatively young.