Brighton Rock (2010)

Yesterday I watched Brighton Rock on Film Four as part of their Great Directors Season.

The screen-shots here are taken from a scene where a fan is used to create a flickering light effect which creates suspense and mystery surrounding the main character, Pinky. The fan is placed in front of the light source so that as the fan goes round the light flickers on and off Pinky's face. This effect suggests to us as viewers that Pinky has two sides to him.

In our final piece I think that this kind of technique would be great to mimic, as our main character has two sides to him.

Another feature of the film I found really interesting was the use of sound combined with editing to disorientate the viewer. For example the film cuts from a man holding a gun to a woman, and then a man takes a photo of her and the sound of the camera is made louder so that it sounds like a gun.

Pinky sits in a darkly lit room as the fan creates flickering light over his face