The Bourne Identity

The scene taken from The Bourne Identity starts outside, with the camera slowly moving setting the location. Jason Bourne comes out and the camera fits him in the scene whilst it's still moving setting the location. Non digetic sound is used to announce who he is 'Hi do you have the number for Jason Bourne'?

When waiting in American Embassy, there are many point of view shots used, when he is looking at different security guards and also looking at the security camera, showing he is aware of his surroundings. This builds tension for the audience as they know something is going to happen and that the guards are slowly closing in on him, and makes you wonder what Jason is going to do next.

When the security guard tells Jason to stop, a low angle shot is used and there is a close up on the handcuffs, this is showing significance towards the handcuffs that he is going to be arrested. Also what is used in that shot is 'shallow focus'. The handcuffs are in complete focus, where as the background is blurred and out of focus, which is making the audience concentrate more on the handcuffs, than on Jason's facial and body expression.

There is then a close up shot of Jason's face, showing his facial expressions, because they are showing anger and disappointment that he is been caught, however, the editing used it slow motion, which adds the effect that something is about to happen, because in slow motion things move slower, so it gives the audience more time to take everything in. Then all of sudden fast motion editing is used when Jason attacks the guards, to show Jason's speed and to show he is a dominant character.

The Mis-En-Scene of when Jason is holding the gun and pointing it at the guards on the floor, a low angle shot is used, which shows Jason as the more dominant character. As Jason starts moving, a non-digetic music track is played, it's face paced, which fits in with the scene as he is running away from the guards and police.

The scene outside when he is getting away from the cops is very significant, one shot used was a close up of Jason's hand when he is grabbing the bar to pull himself up, the mis-en-scene shows only his hand grabbing the bar, but the bar is very wobbly and creaky, which creates tension within the audience, because they automatically know that it isn't safe, and it could break and he could fall to his death.

Then the next shot used is a long shot, in the Mis-En-Scene is the building Jason was on, a building to the right and a few buildings in the background. Jason is standing on the rail of the balcony of the fire escape, this shot is used to create more tension by showing the audience how high up he is and if he falls it would mean certain death.