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| Figure 1 |
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| Figure 2 |
Figure 1 is shot at a tilted angle which could cause disorientation fro the audience. Another factor which causes disorientation in this scene is the building faces aims towards one direction while the character faces the other direction. This looks strange and disorientated as they are opposites, while the buildings become smaller and smaller in the distance Holly stays prominent in the scene. This could show that he is morally better then Harry is and that he ends up taking the moral high ground in the end. The buildings becoming smaller lead to the vanishing point in this scene. The vanishing point possibly connotes bleakness but it could display a journey ending. For example the journey Holly has been on is trying to find Harry whilst believing he is dead, this journey soon comes to a close after this shot.`This could also connote that the journey of grieving is over. The vanishing point is centre frame this could connote that even though the background and Holly are opposites the scene is balanced which could foreshadow the ending of the film. The vanishing point also connotes a sense of darkness and misery which is also reflected through chiaroscuro lighting. Key lighting is used but only in one position so the rest of the scene is in darkness, this creates a high contrast between Holly and the background which makes holly stand out in the scene but it also makes the background in points look slightly fake as well because of the hints of blackness with the dull greyness which could represent Holly and Harry's friendship. The use of key lighting could link to ww2 as Europe was fill of bleakness and surrounded buy darkness so the key lighting could physically represent the light in all the darkness The disorientation of the scene could be used more to Harry's advantage as it makes him easier to escape or give the audience the illusion he has escaped. But in the end the disorientation could be used to either advantage as they used their knowledge to succeed in their goal.
Figure 2 uses a long shot which creates a sense of balance in the scene. This is displayed by the kiosk as it is nearly perfectly in the centre and everything is equal. This connotes that although this has influences of WW2 there was balance in Europe between some countries. The Kiosk is central which highlights its relevance in the film and it also hides the truth even if the truth is in plain sight and Holly actually stands next to where the truth is hidden. In this scene key lighting and back lighting are used in this which also highlights the kiosk as the light surrounds it and makes it more prominent in the scene which draws the audiences attention towards it and makes the audience curious and encourages them to try and guess its significance in the film. The kiosk could also be a metaphor for moral ambiguity which is good versus bad. This could be because Harry disappears to the sewers and Harry could connote darkness within him because of is back-story which could link to a previous scene on the staircase of the German character saying how heaven is down and hell is upwards. Harry knowing that he is Morally wrong tries to get to heaven and rid himself of his sins by thinking that going towards heaven will make him good enough to go whether Holly has stayed on level ground which could connote that he is neutral and God hasn't decided on whether he is worthy of heaven or if he belongs in hell. The cobbled pavement with the look of rain connotates bleakness and misery within Europe but also within the film as Holly has Just found Harry but has suddenly lost him again. The kiosk also has a very dark protruding shadow which symbolises moral ambiguity and that because harry has escaped through the kiosk it now has darkness within it.
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| Figure 3 |
Figure 3 displays disorientation in a variety of ways. The camera angle is odd and isn't balanced this creates disorientation for the audience as they don't know what has happened to Harry yet but it allows them to be curious as to think something has happened. The disorientation also leads to the chiaroscuro lighting which is created using key lighting which influences the heavy dark shadow behind Holly which foreshadows that he has darkness within that possibly hasn't been revealed yet or it could reveal a darkness in the past. The chiaroscuro lighting could also connote mystery as the audience doesn't really know who Holly is or his back-story. The staircase is repeated which could connote never ending which to the audience may represent Holly's journey finding out what Harry had done or even where Harry is. The staircase is also metaphorical for heaven and hell so this causes it to be biblical and also makes the audience question why heaven is downwards and hell is upwards when normally it's the other way around. The angular camera angle is influenced by German expressionism this connotes distortion in the film and confusion in the audience as German expressionism paintings are normally quite angular and confusing.
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| Figure 4 |
In Figure 4 the character Holly is not as significant as in other shots, the background engulfs him due to the camera angle being low. The use of the camera angle creates distortion as the scene looks more daunting and like a scene from a horror movie. The scene could represent this as it is so prominent and as the audience would be the first thing you would take notice of . This is because the back building faces one way and aims towards one building while the side building and Holly are aiming the other way this could connote that all the dimensions are off centre. It also creates unnerving tension between the film and the audience making the audience feel suspense as they don't know what will happen next. The costume Holly is wearing looks like something a detective would wear which connotes mystery in that the audience don't really know who Holly is. It could also connote that he is quite secretive like a detective.The scene becomes lighter and lighter which leads to the chiaroscuro lighting which creates darkness and also a sense of false hope between the two buildings as that is the direction Harry ran off so the false hope is presented in Holly because he thinks that he will find his friend. The clothing Holly wears is dark which instead of the shadow could represent darkness on the outside and in his mind not only within Holly. The quadrants in this scene are uneven as is the camera angle. Half of the quadrants are in light while the other half are in darkness this could connote moral ambiguity and also they could be biblical which links back the ' Heaven and hell being opposite' The direction Harry went off is in light which normally represents goodness and purity which contradicts what Harry is whether Holly is in the middle which links back to the point of him being neutral but mainly good yet he has stayed majoratively in the darkness which would normally represent darkness within and 'Hell'.
Cinematography, framing and composition and mise en scene are used cleverly in The third man chase scene as each one connotes something different with the link mainly being a sense of distortion and confusion.
