The document discusses various film techniques used in the movie Shutter Island including: 1) Extreme long shots, close ups, and medium shots are used to set the background story, show details of characters, and show body language. 2) Pans, tilts, and zooms are camera movements that scan scenes horizontally, vertically, and zoom in/out of frames. 3) Cuts and pace refer to transitions between shots and the speed of those transitions. 4) Mise-en-scene is the positioning of actors, scenes, and objects to tell a story or create an atmosphere.

1. How Micro Elements Are Used
Shutter Island

2. Extreme Long Shot
In an Extreme long shot you are able to see the whole background, it
can be to help set the background story. In this picture it shows the
sea and a medium sized boat telling us that only a few people are
travelling to the middle of nowhere.

3. Close Up
• Close-ups are used to show detail or a persons physical state, in this
screen shot it has capture the physical of the actor, the close up can also
identify him as the main character. The character has an strange look in his
eyes which can show he is angry or even scared.

4. Medium Shot
This print screen of a medium shot, its consists of a little background
and half of the character’s body, we can tell from the picture that the
actor is wearing a police badge on this trousers, and that he is
stressed by his body language. The background looks like he is in a
cabin medical room or bathroom. This could mean that the actor is
unwell or sick.

5. Long Shot
The print screen is showing an extreme long shot, where we can
see the whole of the persons body and parts of the background,
this shot is normally used too show full body language or to show
crowds in different scenes. This shot is showing the back of a
person looking in to the open space of the sea, which is never
ending.

6. PAN
The camera is placed on a tripod, where is can
scan the scene horizontally. This movement is
often used when following an actor, so that
they are kept in the middle of the frame, or so
scan the scene.

7. TILT
• This is very similar to a pan movement, it is
when the camera scans the scene vertically.
This movement is used for scanning a building
in a frame, or even scanning a person for head
to toe.

8. ZOOM
• Is literally when you zoom into or out of the
scene/frame. It can be used to zoom from an
extreme long shot to an extreme close-up. The
zoom pace however can vary it from a ‘smash
zoom’ to a slow zoom where the camera
zooms in inch by inch.

9. CUT AND PACE
• CUT is when the frame changes from
one shot to another. For example from a
close up to a medium shot as shown
below. PACE is how fast this happens.

10. PERFORMANCE
• The performance is all about the vocal
delivery and the emotions they show, to try
and make their performance as realistic as
possible. During the opening sequence of
Shutter Island Leonardo Di’Caprio who is the
main character is very sea sick, so he must
convict his audience he is sick by how he talks
and acts, for example he walks with a dizzy
notion and is sick sea when we first see him.

11. NON-DIEGECTIC
• This is when the actors cannot hear the sound
but the audience can. For example in a
psychological thriller the eerie music played to
emphasis the scene is non-diegitic, because it
has been added in after, so the actors do not
here this only the audience does.

12. DIEGETIC
• This is when the source of the sound is visible
to the actors for example, the voices of
characters (dialogue), sound made by objects
in the story for example if a car is passing by in
the background we and the actors can hear it,
or if music instruments are playing.

13. MISE-EN-SCENE
This is the first scene of the opening sequence, it is showing a small
boat coming out of the fog. The fog represents mystery which is a
typically convention in a psychological thriller, the small boat as well
shows mystery, because we why would you have a small boat in the
middle of nowhere.