1. Nine Frame Analysis – Momento.
The begning of the sequence begins with
someone holding up a photo and the film
name in front of it. The photo resembles
something to do with mystery and crime, and
the fact that you cant see who is holding it
makes you wonder what type of person they
are and why are they holding a photo of a
crime scene. The fact that you cant see
anything in the background but darkness also
makes your mind wonder.
This is the only time in the opening
sequence where you see the face of the
man who was holding the photo. The
shadow against his face hides something
that he has done. The extreme close up to
his face shows you his reaction to whatever
has happened. With the light reflecting off
the side of his face with blood on his cheek
gives he idea that he may have been
involved in a crime such as a murder which
makes you wonder who, what, how and
why the crime happened.
The dark shades of a red liquid
resembles blood, the close up of it
slowly dripping down the wall makes
your mind focus on it more and
realise that there must have been a
murder committed. This resembles
film noir films as it resembles a gun
shooting and a tragic outcome to
the scenario.

2. The deep red colours are
continued in the next shot, a
medium close up of a pair of
glasses broken on the floor, the
blood running down the wall and
only a small glimpse of sunlight
within the darkness puts horror in
your eyes and makes it seem like
a tragic ending like you get in film
noir films. As you still cant tell the
setting you still wonder why the
crime was committed and who
committed it.
After you are given ideas on the film genre
and what the film is going to contain, the
credits start to come into the scene. The
image relates back to the same image at
the opening of a man holding a photo, the
photo has lost its variety of colours when the
man shook the image. It turns into dark
red/brown colours on the images.
As the next credit is shown, the man
shakes the photo again, this time it
has gone a dark orange colour and
some of the details in the picture are
starting to fade away. This makes you
think that something is trying to be
covered and hidden from someone,
like a vital piece of evidence to
something. This represents film noir
films as evidence in crime scenes are
vital.

3. As the photo is shook again, the
credits change and the photo is
now a lot lighter yellow colour
which just looks like blotches of
yellow on the picture with no story
towards it. It is at this point you start
to think that the scene is rewinding
so the audience can see the story
from the beginning and how the
crime was committed and why. This
is like a film noir film as evidence is
small at the beginning, however
once you get into the scenario
things build up.
At this point in the opening sequence
you can then realise that the scene is
rewinding itself as the gun then re-
enters the mans hand .the
background is still extremely dark and
gloomy with only sunlight gleaming
through a window. This continues to
show mystery to the scene and gives
one reason for why the murder was
done – because it was dark and
nobody could see.
The final part to the opening shows a
high angle of the glasses being sent to
the the victims face again. The scene
continues to stay dark with only natural
sunlight reflecting on the wall and blood Momento are mainly taken at extreme close-ups, this
Overall, the stills in this opening clip of
stains justthe identity of the characters and makes you focus on the main item in each frame.
hides barely noticeable. You can
then tell that there isitemstwo main up the genre of the film and gives you a brief summary of
Altogether these only then sum
characters in this scene. This can refer
what will happen in the film.
back to film noir films as the main
characters are usually two people who
meet up privately, just like the two men
here who are in a dark, private place
where things don’t run so smoothly.