'Touch of evil' (1958) Orson Welles

1. Discuss how the cinematography contributes to the telling of the story and the build up of suspense.

Firstly, the establishing shot is a close up of a mans hand setting a timer on a bomb. This builds up suspense as the audicene is aware that a tragedy and it also connotes that death will occur. Then a point of view shot is used from the bombers point of view. This also biulds up suspence as then enigma codes within the audince start up. They question who may be a witness to this, also we recognise that this scene will act as an action code.

2. Consider how the music and the cinematography and the sound work together.

The main music played throughout the scene is jazz music. This is upbeat and connotes happiness and fun. Also, there is no sound from any of the characters until the chracters reach some kind of a depot. The sound is diagetic sound as it is from a character in the film world. Then the cinematography used establishes that two couples are being targeting, especially the rich couple- they are the target of the bomb. Camera movements used are a crane shot, it show who is getting in the car which the bomb is in.