In this extract, I believe that the director is trying to involve the audience with the intense situation happening between the characters. The genre that was most likely chosen by the director would be “thriller.” He/she wants the audience to feel the stress a detective goes through when it comes to getting the answers of a suspect who wants to outsmart him. This situation is very extreme, as lives are put out on the line due to a bomb. The detective’s job could also be lost because he is threatening the woman as he interrogates her, which is frowned upon in that industry.
The first thing that was noticed in the extract was the close-ups on the character’s faces. The author could have chosen another angle or shot but I believe that they went with it because they were trying to get the attention of the audience to focus on the facial expressions. Lighting in the next few scenes is low. However, it is bright enough to shine light on the character’s faces, and have the setting visible. But with low lighting, it can also cast shadows to make things look mysterious, which is probably what the director wanted to do. The location should be established as an interrogation room, where the detective is interviewing his suspect with a pressing attitude. There are hardly any props or furniture because the director wants his audience to have their central point on the sound. It then leads to the next scene of other agents observing this interrogation from another room, on some monitors.
After presenting that there are supervisors watching the interview, the second scene is now both of the characters communicating. The sound you hear in this scene is the dialogue between the suspect and the detective. An interrogation cannot just be silence, so the director created a plot of the woman knowing about a bomb, and wanting to outsmart the man. While this conversation goes on between the two, editing is incorporated into a shot-reverse-shot. This was added to the scene to follow the dialogue of the characters. That way it shows who is talking and what their actions or expressions are while the camera is on them. Another example of how the expressions are presented is zooming. After one of the characters would talk, it would cut to an already close shot, followed by zooming more into the face of the other. This movement keeps the audience engaged since the camera is going into a focal point; in this case, the face of the characters. The zooming also has an effect of claustrophobia, which can lead a person to feel anxiety or stress. It is assumed when watching a show or a movie when the camera zooms far into a character’s face, it is for something dramatic or important.
In the third scene, you can hear the incidental sound that plays along with the actions. This music is supposed to create a feeling of stress or intensity between the characters and the situation they are in. The loud music plays in the ears of the audience and it affects them, by making them worry about what will happen next. The sound is followed up by a split-screen edited in. The director wanted a scene of the supervisor running towards the room they are in, to stop whatever the original detective had started. Assuming he/she wanted to show both the events occurring at the same time; the scene escalated so quickly, that it shows scene A of the supervisor trying to go and stop whatever is happening in scene B. It later matches up into one scene once all characters are in the same location. The vigorous event had finally ended after the tension between the detective and the suspect was removed.
To summarize, the director’s vision is surrounding the idea of putting the audience into the scene, and having them feel what the characters are feeling. He/she wants to evoke a feeling of stress or anxiety because if they were in that situation, their lives would be at risk. All of these filming elements help the director present that idea to the viewers, of how intense an interrogation could be.
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