Element Identification

Shanghai Noon - Western Style Comedy
- bright lighting
- daytime
- country music
- variety of shots and different use of focus
- a cowboy who is actually awful at being a cowboy is teaching another
- he thinks he's great, but he's not
- transfer between two scenes back and forth (teaching scene, and a scene where the main character is sitting eating and recalling events)
- light-hearted, no seriousness

Alien - Science Fiction
- strange building structures that have been oddly shaped
- dark lighting
- eerie and cold feel
- suspenseful moments, sounds and silences
- whispering
- jumps between shots, slow to fast, keeping you on-edge
- lighting sourced from outside of the camera frame
- strange and slimy remains, like clues, of the existence of something other than human
- little to no dialogue, suspense in the soft silences of things
- slow rises to the main point of the scene, good use of framing, to hide what the audience can see
- large variety of camera shots and angles
- rain
- aliens, teeth and saliva
- character taken by the alien
- creepy animal - cat