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The sequence starts with an extreme long shot showing a crate being loaded
onto a lorry. As the crate is placed on the trailer we hear an ambient sound of a
crater being loaded onto a lorry. This hooks the audience into the film and
creates interest into the narrative. Once the crate has been placed onto the
lorry’s trailer the camera cuts to a reverse zoom to show the full contents of the
crate starting from the very back working its way toward the doors.From the
moment the extreme long shot starts we here a non-diegetic sound, which
continues as the camera reveals the contents of the crate. This gives the
impression to the viewer that something may or will happen to the contents of
the crate in the next few minutes of the sequence. Low-key lighting is used to
show the information on the boxes as well as to show it is inside the crate as the
inside would havebeen dark.
The camera now shows the doors of the crate closing and then it does a whip pan
round to a dockworkerwho walks off and rings someone on his phone. A tracking
shot is used to follow the dockworker while he talks on the phone. Here we get
dialogue which tells us in the form of,“Just packed up the real money load and its
coming your way, look for Rogers on the side of the truck and don’t forget my
share of the deal”. From this we gather the dockworker is setting up the lorry for
a heist.As the doors of the crate close we hear again an ambient sound that tells
us the doors have closed, again this hooks the audience into the film and creates
interest into the narrative. Using continuity editing a crane shot follows
smoothly from the tracking shot to show the lorry is leaving thedock and to give
the viewer the impression that the dockyard is quite a large facility. As the lorry
leaves the dockyard we hear the noise of the engine of the lorry, again,this hooks
the audience into the film and creates interest into the narrative.
The camera then cuts to the door of the lorry to show that it is the same lorry as
before and to state that the heist we heard of is about to be pulled off. A
steadicam is used to move where one of the sports cars goes while staying ahead
of it. A bird’s eye view is then used to show a man climbing out of the sunroof
with a grapple gun. Here they use a match on action technique to show the
grapple being fired and then shows it impacting the glass of the lorry and pulling
it off the frame. Also, in this sequence they enhance the sound of the grapple gun
being fired as well as the impact of the projectile penetrating the glass and
pulling it from the frame. This has been used to hook the audience into the film
and to create interest into the narrative. The same technique is used to show a
second car taking the place in front of the lorry while a second person fires a
projectile through the open windshield of the cabin and into the back of the seat
which allows the man to jump and climb into the cabin. This gives the impression
to the audience that these hijackers are professionals and they do not want any
casualties as they want a clean hijack with no deaths or injuries.
Inside the cabin it uses a medium close up of the driver and the hijacker. This is
to show the driver’s expressions while showing the audience that he is trying to
defend himself by hitting the hijacker with a baseball bat. The same medium
close up technique is used to show the hijacker in a helmet suggesting he doesn’t
want the police and lorry driver to know his identity and it also gives the
viewers’ imagination something to think about. Also, in this shot it shows the
hijacker to be holding a gun of some kind, which suggests to the viewer that

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either the driver is going to be shot dead or sedated, or the driver will turn the
gun on the user.
Once the hijacker has taken over the lorry and has control over it there is a
match on action used to show the lorry smashing through some roadwork
barriers and then it shows the lorry smashing through the road works from the
other side. The same technique is used just before the convoy reaches the actual
road works as the hijackers position their cars to go through the road works. One
car is in front of the lorry, a second is behind and the third is underneath the
lorry. The match on action is used to show the skill of the driver as it shows him
disappearing into the lorry and then it shows him sliding the car underneath the
lorry from another angle.
The establishing shot presents a large area of the city. The aerial right to left pan
shows more of the city during the night and then an ellipsis editing technique is
used to forward the time to daytime; it does this by showing the same area of the
city but with the sky being fast forward untilthe black sky of the night are gone
and the red- bluish sky of a morning appears. This emphasizes that the next
sequence of events will take place in the city during the day. Following the
elliptical editing is another establishing shot of the other side of the city which
includes a sports stadium,in which the next scene is set, it then cuts to a crane
shot of the stadium.