In this extract of “24”, I believe the director of the film is trying to get the audience engaged with the scene, and to give them a sense of the tense and serious situation. As well as giving the audience a glimpse of the process and intensity of the situations that detectives go through during interrogations, especially when the suspect in question is difficult to work with. It is reasonable that the director intended to make this film be of the Thriller genre. Mostly because of the emotions that a viewer can feel while watching the film, as it is intended to give them an intense and mysterious feeling. The situation presented in the extract is quite nerve-wrecking, since the lives of many people are in danger because of an unlocated bomb, as well as the jobs of the detectives in the interrogation. Mostly because of his treatment towards the woman being questioned. One of the very immediately noticeable features of the extract was the close-up angles of the faces of the characters throughout the film. I believe this was the director’s intention with the film, as it draws more attention towards the faces of the characters, where the viewers can clearly see their facial expressions and emotions. This is also seen through the lighting in the film, where it's minimal and very dim, casting many shadows throughout the scene. This also helps draw more attention to the faces of the characters, giving them more life and emotion to be clearly seen by the audience. It also helps create a sense of mystery and tension. The entirety of the extract is located inside the interrogation room. This is the room where the detective interviews the woman in question. The background and set of the interrogation room is very dull, with few props in sight. This also helps draw more attention to the dialogue. As well as giving a more mysterious and serious mood to the scene, as the room seems eerie. Following the reveal that there were supervisors overseeing the interrogation the entire time, the following scene now includes both of the characters communicating with each other. The noise being heard throughout this scene is just the dialogue between the detective/interrogator and the suspect. This also creates much tension, as it is known that the woman being questioned knows about a bomb planted at an unknown location, as he tries her best to fool the detective. As their dialogue continues, shot-reverse-shot is added to the scene, to give the viewers a more engaging experience. As well to make the conversation feel more natural and to highlight the expressions and reactions of the characters. Furthermore, zooming is also used in the scene. Once a character in the scene was finished talking, the scene would cut to a close-up shot, along with a zoomed shot of the other character’s face. All of these shots used in the film help keep the audience engaged with the film, and the experience of the characters. As well as building stress and tension among the viewers, as the scene starts to feel more up close and personal. During the third scene of the extract, incidental noise is heard in the background during the characters’ interactions. The light sound/music is meant to insert tension and stress throughout the interactions of the characters. As the audience watches the film, the incidental noise will be heard by them, dragging them into all of the tension as well. This helps build anxiety and questions as to what is going to happen as a result of the intense dialogue and actions of the characters, especially given their current situation. This sound, accompanied by the split-screen incorporated into the scene gives the audience a whole roller coaster of feelings and emotions. This is all followed by a scene of the supervisors who were overseeing the interrogation, rushing to the interrogation room in hopes of putting a stop to what the detective is doing. The director most likely intended these two scenes to be occuring at the same time, that way it was shown how quickly things went dark. These two scenes are shown next to each other simultaneously, and when they both are now in the same physical location, it returns to a normal state with just one scene on the screen. Finally, after this scene, the supervisor successfully ended the tension between the detective and the woman, as she was removed from the room. In conclusion, the core of this extract of the film “24” is to put the audience in the center of all the comotion and tension. The intent of the director was to give the film as much tension as possible, in an attempt to give the audience a sense of anxiousness and stress, as the characters in the extract are feeling themselves. This is all done with simply using the right editing, camera angles, and noise, all coming together in order to give the viewers an inside look in the extremely intense scene.
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