Shutter Island - John Swift

The first things we see is an extreme long shot, the viewer is unaware of the location until some of the mist clears and we see the ocean and boat appear, this helps to build enigma. We can hear a sound of a trumpet in the background playing a single now every few seconds this has been done to also help build suspense.

We then go on to see a shot of the main character leaning over feeling sick. We can tell he is on the boat as we can hear metal  chains clanking together aswell as the sea and hum from the engine.

We still have no idea why the character Is being sick as he says “pull yourself together” talking to himself in the mirror, the close up of his face allows the viewer to see his facial expressions. From this we can see he is feeling ill because of the sweat on his face.

a close up of the the sink helps build on this image of him being sick, from where we are then taken to a close-up of the characters face again.

We are then taken outside where a long-shot has been used to show the charaters body movement as he staggers across to another male charater grabbing on to a metal post and then railing, once again this tells us he has a fear of water.

Both charaters are dressed in formal clothing wearuing suits and hats, this tells us that they are of a high social level. When the second male asks if the other has a partner, he looks deep in thought after saying he did, but not any more.

A sound bridge is then used and strats playing opera music, we are  then taken to a scene where his partner is putting his tie on, all of the sound of this sequence has been wiped off apart from the opera music, this really helps to show the importance of this woman to him, and link it to what he was talking about. A cashing of a wave is then used as a sound bridge to take us back to them tewo characters on the boat.