Wallander (Firewall, 7th December 2008, BBC1)

Wallander ( Firewall 7th December, 2008, BBC1)

Cinematography 

When watching Wallander, cinematography is used to show suspicion. We firstly see a high angle shot on the sea, which is confusing for the audience, as we don't know where the setting is the sea can be based anywhere around the world so we are still left not knowing the setting. We then track a possible car moving from far, which is already focusing the viewers attention to the main subject, and tells us that it has some importance to the TV programme. We then see have a two shot of two young adults standing there, the two shot is placed so we don't directly see their identity, the camera is placed here to create a direct sense of curiosity in the audience, which then builds up as we want to see the two girls identity. We then see a shot of a body in the van, where there is a pull focus on the mans ID card, which gives us his identity and information about him, such as he is a Taxi driver, however this little piece of information creates many questions in the audiences mind, however in the clip we don't know how he ended up hurt in the country. We then see the girls faces, however as it progresses we get closer to the girl with red hair, which may be telling us that she is the main culprit in the attempted murder. 

The two shot, showing the girls identity is hidden from us the audience.

Sound

When watching the opening sequence, the first sound we here is similar to the wind which shows that it is an empty space, and emphasising that it is set at the country side, as the sound continues we then hear a sting, which is a higher pitch sound when the girls appear on screen, this could be meaning that it is a sense of danger, and that the girls are bad and up to no good.  We then see the scene of the man in the van, we hear the radio playing, which means that the vehicle is still running, however the sound is muffled, which could be emphasising the lack of signal from how isolated they are from a busy setting. Creating questions in the audiences mind, such as why are they there?. We then see the girls appearing again, however we have hyperbolic sound of the girls footsteps and heavy breathing, this links it to the man who is injured, and heavy breathing and foot steps insist adrenalin rush, showing that something has happened however we don't know, the director has chosen to this so that we know that so we guess and make assumptions through out the opening sequence

Mis-en-scene 

We can see that the clip is set in a remote setting, which is the sea, so is the country side, this makes confusion for the audience as we don't know why the clip is set here, or what is going to happen as you have no where to go in the country side. We then see two girls standing there, we see the back of there heads and what their costumes are, the one on the right has red highlights in her hair, and red con-notates evil and bad so this makes us feel as though that she is the one in control over the situation, however we are unsure this is what the use of costume choice makes us think that they maybe dangerous. We also see blood on the front window of the mans van, blood symbolises pain, so the man has obviously been hurt, which is putting the audience on edge and wanting to find out more. The props used is firstly the mans ID card, which is our first clue to who he is which is a Taxi driver, however we don't know what has happened, until we see the prop of the knife in the girls hand which is a big clue, we still don't know why the mans has been stabbed, but we know which one of the girls had killed him. The mis-en-scene is overall used to make the audience want to continue watching the TV episode, and set the setting. 

Prop of the bloody knife, telling us she has hurt the man.

Editing

For the opening sequence of wallander we see slow paced editing, the slow paced editing is used to show us what has happened without giving to much information away to the audience for example the clip where the man is hurt in the  vehicle is shown for a while, this is so that the audience can intake what has happened and make sense of the scene. We also see cross cutting between the clips, from the girls to the man, this shows clearly what has happened making it more clear each time the clip continues, cross cutting is to link the two different shots together, however the audience has to fill the gaps. We also see a visual motif which is in the beggining titles, where the arrow comes down in a way that it is representing the knife, creating a sense that it may be a mystery programme which contains violence or action. 

The visual motif of the knife coming down.