Ransom kidnapping

The film 'Ransom' has given me and Amy ideas for how our character will be kidnapped at the beginning of our film introduction. I like the lack of dialogue and action that the kidnapping includes as it is still affective and the music and camera shots help build tension up to the point where the character is kidnapped.

The scene includes long and close up camera shots switching between the kidnapper's face and the boy he is taking followed by tracking shots of the man following and slowly creeping up on him. This is done along with non diegetic sound of music that is slow, building suspense up to the point where the man takes the boy.

When the man becomes close to the boy behind him, just as he is about to grab him, the camera does a pan movement behind a wall and then when it comes out the other side of the wall the characters have disappeared and the music has built up a loud tension to an immediate silence. We are going to do a similar action to this in our film as it is set in a car park the camera will move behind a car to then reveal the characters have gone.