Brick

BRICK SYNOPSIS

The life of Brendan Frye is about to change when his hot ex-girlfriend Emily disappears overnight. When Brendan finds out that Emily's disappearence may be connected to a local urban legend called "The Pin," he tactfully infiltrates the hierarchy of high-school caste. With the help of a good friend named Brain, Brendan proceeds into the pit and begins to stir up controversy with the school's most popular stock in order to figure out just what the hell is going on. En route, he begins to realize that this is no ordinary group of people that Emily had familiarized herself with. They are dangerous and willing to do anything to protect their political strength and reputations at any cost. And when drugs finally become a catalyst of brutal peer violence, Brendan is now caught not only looking out for the safety of his lover, but for his own life as well. There's more, but you'll have to watch.

IN THE LESSON:This lesson we watched in emmense detail, the opening sequence to this film. We analysed the shot types used, and how the director uses shot types and music to make us now that we are watching a thriller. The opening sequence commences with the camera tracking on the pavement. We then see a pair of old brown shoes, which appear a lot in the movie. This was perhaps done so that we could distinguish this character from the rest of the other characters. We are then taken in by a very gruesome shot of a boy sitting next to a curb qwith a dead girl with her hair in the water. The camera tracks into the girls body, on the arm there was a blue bracelet,which we learn later on is very inportant for identifying her. We know that this girl is actually dead as her hair was the only thing that was moving, whilst she was not. We were also able to distinguish this scene as a flashback because the dead girl was wearing a bracelet, then we saw the same girl with the bracelet later on.  The music used in the opening sequence is played on a guitar which as a very eerie effect on the footage.