Pulp fiction - John Swift

The first thing that we see is a two shot of the couple sitting at a table in the restaurant, we can tell it is a restaurant because of the style of table they are sitting at looks similar to one you would find in a generic restaurant not very upper-class. From what the couple are wearing we can tell that they are not of a high social level, especially by the language they are using and talking a lot of slang.

The rate of shots per second is low and the camera seems to be placed on a tripod to keep it stable. Both of the characters have a slight shadow over them which may have been used to create enigma.

We can tell by the male characters body language of him lighting a cigarette and having his feet on the chair that the restaurant is not an expensive one therefore the characters probably don’t have much money.

When we see the female from the males POV shot we can see that a shadow has been casted over half of the females face, this helps to create enigma as portrays that there might be things that we don’t know about this character.

Unlike the other thrillers no soundtrack has been overlaid of non-diegetic music. All we can hear is sounds of the restaurant quietly in the background, but out attention is drawn mainly to the sound of the two characters taking.

 A low angle shot has been used when we see the waitress with the jug of coffee; this creates the image that the two male and female characters are lower than her. After all we know they are robbers and she has a proper job.