Jackie Brown Title Sequence

Jackie Brown was directed by Tarantino in 1997. It is about a Black middle aged air hostess who gets involved in the police and an arms dealer. Jackie's role as the Femme Fatal is a generic convention of a thriller film. For the first one minute and fifty seconds of this opening sequence, the camera simply tracks the character along a moving carpet, typically found in airports. It shoots a profile view of Jackie Brown and follows her all the way to the end of the conveyor. The lighting looks natural however it could well have been studio lighting creating the extra light rays so it could be non-abient lighting. We watch Jackie travel along this conveyor in a medium close up, with the non-diegetic sound laid over the top of the clip, '110th Street'.

The music then speeds up into a high tempo stacato moment of the song, it reaches a climax and the changes the shot to the scanning proceedure of the bags they have to carry out in the airports. It is showing high security proceedures that everyone had to partake in, and the character Jmackie Brown simply walks behind the security desk and carrys on. This could suggest that later on in the film, no one suspects her of committing the crime or helping the criminal and so she does not have to go through the s ecurity proceedures.

It then cuts so a low angle tracking shot of her walking through the airport, however she is walking the opposite way to everyone ele. This could foreshadow that she will be turning against society in order to do what is right, maybe what is wrong. She also does not make eye contact witgh anyone in particular and therefore is inconspicuous to many. This may reflect that no one would suspect her of doing what she does for her boss.

It cuts to a medium close up of Jackie walking towards the camera and the camera tracks her going forwards.The focus of the camera is on her, everyone else is blurred out suggesting that she is the most crucial and vital part of this film.

Soon it cuts to a side on view again highlighting her profile, foreshadowing that she has to look out for herself and only herself as everyone else is still blirred into the background.

It then cuts to a low angle long/medium shot of her continuing to walk through the airport, however this time she is walking faster than everyone else, suggesting that she is one step ahead of everyone in the film and that she knows their next move.

It cuts to a side on medium close up again yet she is standing in the shadows, possibly suggesting that she will become involved in crime and she may be wanted by the police of some other form of felonic person. During this shot she alsdo starts to run, implying that she will be running from someone or trying to hide from someone at point in this film.

Eventually in the clip Jackie reaches the gate, this could suggest that in the end, she comes out on top and the truth outs reaching her safety barrier.