Bound analysis
- 2. This is the opening scene of the trailer straight away close up of a woman wearing a vest and looking slightly shabby under a kitchen sink and we see what we think is her sabotaging the pipes for the water, the audience reaction is why is she not very lady like with her clothing as well as (stereotypically) why is she doing a man’s work which involve plumbing and getting dirty.
- 3. Then a straight cut is used of a woman’s legs (lower mid shot) in a short pencil skirt giving the idea of the film being very sexual with the play of sexual relations with the contrast from the previous girl however you don’t see the woman who’s wearing the black pencil skirt. The colour black she’s wearing does give the connotations of mystery as well as darkness.
- 4. A mid shot is used of a confrontation of two woman sort of sole gazing into one another with the music in the background of a non-diegetic low base sudden stop as the woman open the door, giving the audience the view or impression that something eerier is potentially going to happen. Again, dress code for both women are very basic and simple and not lady like without showing any Décolletage or not really trying to flaunt her body or any bits of it ,the opposite of the basic stereotype of the woman always wanting sexual attention.
- 5. Two women in the darkness abnormally close to each other with not much clothing on gives the audience the impression of some sort of connection between them as well as the fact of the scenes beforehand. One would come to the conclusion of the women being lesbians, the relationship seems more of an emotional one as lesbians wouldn’t really search for a sexual connection with the person the same as a heterosexual person would, this idea of lesbians being in a gangster crime film trailer gives the audience the idea of woman in the 1996 were not getting any emotion attention from a male, giving the impression society in the 1996 wasn’t ideal for woman, or just that this particular examples shows how valuable trust is to the people in the film rather than a more “human” approach to things from another perspective.
- 6. Mid shot of a room is used showing positioning of each character with the male in control of the situation and stereotypically the dominant one. She tries to talk but is overpowered by his voice, showing the audience the vulnerability of the woman in a “man's world” links in with the bizarre idea of woman taking leads in a crime gangster film. Another contrast between the two girls one's very masculine with her clothing other is sort of lazily dressed showing a lot of skin like a woman would.
- 7. Contrast to the previous scene of the woman being delicate and seductive, back to the “real world” of a crime gangster film where the men are violent and ruthless fitting in with the stereotype, again the main character is the one in red giving the connotations of danger including blood. An odd spot is not presents of a male or female throughout the whole scene including this, a huge contrast with today's society and stereotypes of “blacks” being part of crime and violence.
- 8. Reflection shot of women doing her make up or at least getting it all out as women dom, seeing the colours being used are black, red and crème all have different connotations of danger and love for red and darkness for black and purity with the crème, another reason for showing the audience this shot is to show us the lady side of the character to tell us she still has feminine “set of skills” i.e. using her “skills “to be seductive and trick men ,stereotype of a woman's role in a gangster / crime film.
- 9. A mid shot is used of a woman in black holding a gun crouching about to shoot someone, stereotypically, this is a man's job in a gangster/crime. The gender roles have been swapped. This gives a sense of abnormality in the film.
- 10. “Bound ” in the centre with non-diegetic sound of an electric guitar draws the attention of the audience also the title moves and flashes too this is to make sure your main focus on the screen in on the moving and flashing object not just a still image the amount of shots shown are 53 scenes in total all fast pace.