Extended Research on My Chosen Genres- Crime/Thriller/Drama

City of God

The opening sequence of this film has excellent camera and production work with the chicken. I think it is quite funny when juxtaposed against the terrible living conditions portrayed in the movie.

I like this clip in the movie because it starts of really sharp to get your attention by the sounds of the carving of the knife. Immediately we are intrigued and it shows what the type of the film is. I also like how it shows a really short clip of the knife then cuts off into a blackout. This in a way is symbolizing death, like the knife kills you then your worlds a blackout. I would like to possible re-create this sort of shot in my own opening sequence because when I first seen it I really liked it so I hope other people like it to. I would either need to be really quick and sharp carving the knife or speed it up on the computer.

I like how these shots refer back to the remaining chicken thats waiting to die. I like how it switches between the shots of the process of killing the chicken and the process of getting it ready to sell and then back to the living chicken, the use of camera shots and production work really make this shot because it speeds this shot up as the chicken is getting closer to dying and as the chicken starts panicking. When it switches back to the live chicken it has filmed it so that you can see that the chicken is panicking and trying to find somewhere to go, an escape. You can see this by the chicken eyes and heart beat.