Leon: The Professional

(Referring to the first three minutes)

The music is tense at first, adding tension to the beginning of the film. But it quickly changes direction to a more uplifting style yet with drums and flutes keeping the tension and therefore making it conventional of the thriller genre. As Danielle has previously noted, we are keen to avoid this convention, and instead use old happier music to juxtapose the narrative and ultimately give an impression of unease.

The scene in which dialogue is used, we only get close ups of Leon's face, keeping his identity concealed, something we are keen to incorporate into our interview scene, hiding Olivia's face to allow for the audience to make the connection between her character and the pictures of her in the shed themselves.

The use of the milk in the scene adds a sense of normality and some humour (such a man would choose to drink milk over of the usual alcoholic drink, but also an early sign of his softer side). We are considering using drinks on both locations, in the shed scene, and the interview scene. In Leon it is clearly visible an error in continuity with the amount of milk in the glass at different times, to avoid this we aren't going to have our actress drinking out of the cup in the interview scene, instead just playing with it to show her nervous state. In the shed scene the cup is more of a background feature allowing a graphic match, rather than it being in use, therefore we don't have to worry about it during filming.