No County For Old Men

No County for Old Men

Mise en scene Opening scene
They use a voice over to grab the viewers attention when the scene is only showing various different landscape until it shows the viewers the narrator. It shows how remote and deserted the place where the sheriff .  A few shots later they show a man being arrested and a police officer (the narrator) putting a gas canister into the front seat. In the next scene the camera zooms into a man on the phone, and the camera is focused on him but you see a man in the background
Sound
At first their no sound being made besides the voice of the main character/narraitor voiceing over diffrent shots of empty desert and the sound of wind blowing and movement of grass, tumbleweed amd some birds chirping. Then slow music plays in the background which is non-diagetic. It all stops when the shot in the police station were a police officer is talking on the phone. Also music is building up in the background to add suspence were he gets stangled.
Editing
It opens with a blank simple title screen then fades into black. The editing is slow and each cut is around 10 seconds long. But when it reachs the scene where the police officer was stangled the speed of editing speeds up to about 2 seconds. After he died it slows down again to 7 seconds. Through out the clip they uses staight cuts as their is no fades, dissolves or wipes in the scene.
Camera
They use a steady cam when the sheriff arrests the man. Then use a long shot when the car drives away into the distance. Then they use a steady cam when the camera when the police officer is using the phone. They use a low angle when the man is stangling the police officer and a high angle shot when he washes his hands.