Homework - Analysis of the first four minutes of Vera clip.

Initial thoughts: From the way everyone except the man talking and Vera are sitting down shows the power of the people in the room. Vera is in charge and therefore she is higher than everyone else except the man talking as at the time he has the power for people to listen to him. After a while Vera regains control when she asks him a question he doesn't know the answer too, therefore leading to him sitting down and her being the highest once again. So far it is clear that this is a detective program set near the sea due to accents, clothes and the surroundings.

Shot Types:

• There is the use of the establishing shot to show that the characters are in the police room. 
• There is close ups of each person in the room to show the emotions and facial expressions as they here the case read to them.
• There is over the shoulder shots of Vera and the blonde man as they converse. This is to show their facial reactions of what they are being told. 
• As Vera continues talking the camera does close ups on each characters face to see the change in their reaction as she speaks. This continues till next section.
• It is clear to the audience that the location has changed as there is a long/establishing shot.
• In this shot the surrounding area is very empty which could be representing the lack of leads the police have on the current case.
• There is over the shoulder shots between Vera and the dark haired man to show reactions as they have a deep conversation.
• The camera follows the characters to the car to show that there is a change in location about to happen.
• There is an establishing shot to show the new location.

Sounds:

Diegetic sounds in this clip include: 

• The sea
• The drinks can clinking
• the pencil drawing on the paper

The most probable reasoning for these being in the clip is to create a feeling of the program being real for the audience and to show the location of the clip and also make this real.

Non- diegetic sounds in the clip include:

• low dreary mood music.

The mood music is played just before Vera and the police man have a conversation that is clearly of some significance to the policeman character. The music is to suit the tone of the conversation but also sticks to the traditional theme tune for the program.

Synchronous sounds in the clip include:

• The Paper rustling
• The sea in the background. 

The main reason for using Synchronous sounds is to continue this feeling of realism for the audience and keep the audience picturing the location.

A - Synchronous sounds in the clip include:

• phones ringing
• keyboards tapping
• sirens
• doorbell

The A - synchronous sounds in the clip are also to create realism and build up the picture of the location. 

Mise-en-scène

From the clip we can tell that the clip is filmed in the country by the sea. The things in the clip telling us this are:

• By the sea, you can hear seagulls and see the sea.
• Some is set in a police station.
  
• The characters have accents.
• Vera wears quite country style clothing.
• People are aloud to walk around with guns.
• Vera has a very cross country type land rover car that is clearly not made for a town.
• They are wearing winter clothes and Vera is dressed quite informative.
• A pier type structure can be seen in the background.