History of violence

History Of Violence 

A History Of Violence is a filmed directed by David Cronenberg. This film is based on a man who kills two robbers in self defense who tried to rob his small diner and this then leads to his violent past.
It was ranked the best film of 2005 in the Village Voice Film Poll also the film had a budget of $32m and it sold over $60m and it is minutes long.

Camera Analysis 
The first 4 minutes of the film is all one continuous shot, which tracking cam is used in to follow the car and also there are extreme close up shot of the gun when the guy is about to shot the little girl and this shows that the gun is the most powerful thing in the shot because it is the biggest. There is also a pan shot during when the guy goes to get water from the phone box its a pan shot as it carries on going towards the right and there is also a low angle shot when the guy bends down to shot the little girl.

Sound Analysis 
There are many types of sounds in this first starting scene which include diegetic and non diegetic sound. There is the sound of the radio which is a diegetic, also there is the sound of the truck which is a diegetic sound, sound of the gun shot and many more. There is also one non-diegetic sound where the music builds up the tension. 

Editing
Slow editing but they also had one whole continuous shot in the first 3 minuets of the movie and there was about 5 cuts in that first scene.



  
In this key opening scene we see there are not a lot of cuts because the director wants the audience to focus on the scenery and on specific character for the time being because in that same scene the first character who was driving the car at first kills a little girl around 3 mins into the film which he plays an important role in the first 4 mins of the film.