Practice Extract Essay 24

Practice Extract Essay 24

            When watching the 24 extract, I first had the thought that the author’s/director’s vision on this extract was that it was important and serious. As I kept watching it, I understood more and more of what was going on in the extract, which the theme kept telling me that it was urgent and of great importance. The director’s vision when creating this extract is that it must be straight to the point, highlight the key scenes, and make it scream serious. The director’s vision was to make the extract serious, show urgency, and importance in my opinion after watching it several times.

            First off, the very first scene involves the main male actor coming into the dull, dimly lit interrogation room and closing the door behind him. As he does this, he stares directly at the main female actor going to be interrogated with a serious intent. This highlights my opinion of what the director’s vision is, which is to make this extract seem important and urgent. Just them exchanging serious stares at each other show that this must be important and what is going to happen after this is also important. Using close ups, them staring at each other, and the incidental music playing all show the importance of the situation as the suspension builds up.

            Next up, the next scene covers the two main actors talking to each other, the main male actor interrogating the main female actor. The serious dialogue they are having along with the small diegetic sounds like footsteps and them moving make the viewers lean on into the importance of their dialogue. This dialogue answers what the extract is about, and the matter at hand is also very urgent since it relates to the president, bombs, and traitors. The repeating close-ups, shot-reverse-shots and the serious dialogue make a finite loop of urgency and importance in the viewer’s minds which is what I imagine the author’s/director’s vision was supposed to be like. As the setting briefly cuts into the camera room, as two people watch them carefully in a dimly lit room makes it more apparent that whatever is happening on in the interrogation room even more important. This scene is the highlight of the author’s/director’s vision before the explosive next scene comes in.

            Finally, the last scene shows the main male actor getting angry at the female main actor and begins to ram her chair into the wall behind her and creates dialogue in an urgent serious manner. As he screams and rams her chair into the wall behind her, a split-screen occurs showing the two people from the camera room rushing on over to the interrogation room. This urgent response to this serious incident makes it all more apparent that the author’s/director’s vision was to create a feeling of urgency and importance. Now as the two people come along with security guards and officers to hastily get the main male actor out of the room, the main female actor is left gasping to breathe as she was being choked out of anger. The actor’s vision in my opinion gets confirmed here with the most apparent and vivid things are happening out of urgency and importance of the matter.

            In conclusion, I feel that I am right on what the director’s vision is, which is to create a theme of urgency and importance. From the beginning scene, until the end scene, there have been many serious and suspenseful moments that added to the meaning of urgency and importance. The matter at hand that is being discussed (the dialogue), the dim lighting, the close-up shots, the camera angles, the sudden and captivating editing techniques are highlight and help what I think the director’s vision is and what it is trying to produce for the viewers. The right and correct director’s vision in my opinion is that the director was trying to make a theme and feeling of urgency and importance.