Joyride Analysis

The next film that I'm going to write on is a film called Joyride that was made in 2001. Now I can't actually find an opening sequence to this film, but it is so good that I have to write on it, so I have the trailer. The mis-en-scene of the trailer and the film is very nervy and in some ways perhaps scary and jumpy. There is not much of a soundtrack in the film, nor non-diegetic sound. Most of the sound used is diegetic and it mostly involves the characters talking to each other, either face-to-face or across the CB radio. Giving that the link is a trailer there is a lot of editing of shots involved. For instance in the chase through the fields the camera switches from each character very rapidly and at a frantic pace. The most common camera shot used in the film is the close-up, although the long shot is used at times and the tracking shot is used along with cut-aways to intense the intensity.