Brick- Opening Scene

  Brick is a 2005 American neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Rian Johnson, starring Joesph Gordon-Levitt. It was Johnson's directorial debut and won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Brick was distributed by Focus Features, opening in New York and Los Angeles on April 7th 2006.  

The film's narrative centers on a hardboiled detective story that takes place in a Californian suburb. Most of the main characters are high school students.

Sound
As we enter the opening of Brick, we hear calm, mellow music which is of what you may hear a hippie play or something you would hear when someone is depressed during a film.  The music is non diegetic as the characters are unable to hear the music. The music makes the audience feel sorrowful and assume that something bad has happened or is going to happen.

Miss en Scene

The scene starts off pitch black and then we get a close up of a man crouching down with his hands together touching his chin, seeming to be reminiscing about something. His body language tells us that he is upset about something or may be regretting something that he has done, and is now thinking about what to do to clear the situation. We then get an extreme close up of his face which suggests that we should take a good look at this character and remember his face, as he is important in the film. At the start of the scene the lighting is very dull which creates an unexciting and lifeless mood to the audience. We then get a master shot of the boy still crouching, however we can now see a body opposite him laying face down, which the audience assume is dead or unconscious, because of the man;s posture and facial expressions, the audience are forced to believe this character had done this to the person laying face down. 

Editing 

The editing in the opening scene starts off slow which builds up tension. We first start off by seeing the ground and then someones shoes, which builds curiosity to the viewers. We then get an extreme close up of the persons eyes which makes the characters wonder who the character is. An extreme close up is effective because is creates disorientation and mystery to the audience. It then cuts and we see a master shot of what the man is looking at. He is looking opposite at him and the audience see a lifeless body laying on the other side. We then get a shot reverse shot as it cuts again and we now get a close up of the characters face, and then a shot of the bodies legs laying there and then of the bodies hair. The audience are now sure that the man is responsible for the women's death/accident.