CF: Techniques used in "Brick" (Johnson, 2005)

Techniques:

• Firstly an eye line match is used straight away, this allows insight for the audience into the protagonists emotions, this is often used in thriller films as the character's emotion's may be extreme, as thriller movies often contain murder or such, which can lead to extreme anger, sadness etc. By doing this, the audience is immediately shown that the character on screen is being effected by emotions.
• The wide-angle shot shows the man kneeling down and looking at her body, this shows the situation to be similar to a detective type photo of a crime scene or so, this completely corresponds with the theme of the film, which is mainly detective based, this is due to the events that the protagonists take part in are all related to solving the mystery as to the 'mess' that his romantic partner has got herself into.
• There is a slow and slight zoom towards the victims legs when the protagonist is inspecting her corpse (part of his detective duties), it shows her legs to be clean and hairless, thus amplifying her femininity, her clothes which originally were white, sharp and clean, are now wet, dirty and ruined, this shows her to have lost her innocence, the audience may infer that it is someone or a number of people who are to blame for this, it may naturally be conceived by the audience that these beings live or lurk in the darkness that is the center of attention in this scene. 
• The last shot of the scene is a shot that shows her hand in the water, the shot fades to another shot of the same hand (you can tell it is the same by the bangles), this shows that their has been a flashback, as the previous shot showed her to be lifeless, and is now full of life. From the way that costume (the bangles) were used to convey that the next shot in the scene was a flashback or a point in the past, I have learnt that this is a technique that we could use if we decide to incorporate a flashback into our final video.

• Another interesting technique, is that of giving the protagonist's feet a lot of prevalence, this almost emphasizes the persona and attributes of the boy, it shows that he is neither rich, famous or supernatural, it is conventional of thriller or neo-noir movies to do this, as it adds a sense of realism, thus amplifying any sort of suspense that is thrust upon the audience, as it seems to be real rather than just for the movie. 
• It is done a number of times throughout the film to keep reminding the audience of how the protagonist is, and the reason it makes him seem neither rich, famous or supernatural, is that he is not like other teenagers who get caught up by the latest trends, but is more focused on the task in hand, solving the mystery.