AS Media Studies: November 2011

The opening starts with an Establishing Wide Shot of a boat with two anglers on a river. The camera then pans to a poster saying "Münsteraner Night Fishing". These two shots introduce the location and the topic; the two anglers are obviously taking part in the night fishing.
The mood is a little scary through the dim light and the non-digetic sounds.

It continues with a Mid Shot of one of the anglers smoking a cigarette or drugs. The name of the main actor is blended in the bottom left corner of the frame. We can see both body language and facial expressions of the man; he looks very relaxed.
He's got long grey hair that he wears in a ponytail and he's not shaved, what makes him look a little messy and alternative.

Next is an Establishing Shot again, showing how he pulls something out of the water.

The next shot is a Medium Shot again. As he sees what he pulled out of the water he looks very shocked first and then leans back in disbelief.
As the other man asks "Fish?", he answers "No, foot." This gives us an idea of what the crime film might be about; the angler probably fished a foot out of the water.
The name of another actor is blended in the bottom right corner.

The opening continues with a long shot of the main actor, one of the inspectors, sitting on his sofa, turning the TV on and drinking out of his bottle of beer at the same time. He sighs and leans back on the sofa and puts his feet on the table. The presenter on TV announces the football game Bayern München vs. St. Pauli; the inspector is a supporter of St. Pauli.
He is still wearing his shoes, what gives the impression that he just came home and is probably looking forward to watch the game now.
As his phone starts ringing he looks really annoyed, and as he sees that it's his father calling he puts it back on the table and continues watching TV.
That gives the audience a first idea of the relationship between him and his father. It's obviously not too good as he doesn't seem to consider a call of him as very important.
As the phone starts ringing again he looks even more annoyed and leans forward to make it stop, but then looks very surprised as he looks on the screen. He mumbles some words that sound like this caller is more important and can't just be ignored. His body language makes us see that this is probably the end of his football evening.

The location changes again and now shows a high angle Close Up of a shoe with a human foot in it. At the same time it's a Point of View Shot, which we can see in the next shot. Next to the foot is a number how it's used by the police to mark certain points of a crime scene.You can see the flash of a camera and hear people talking in the background, so the police is probably there.

In the next shot you can see the inspector, the woman who called him and the police photographer in a Mid Shot from bottom angle bending over the shoe.
The inspector looks still very annoyed and argues with the woman, because he's angry he left his TV only because of a foot. He's very sarcastic and asks, if he should question the foot now.
He's now wearing his St. Pauli scarf, probably as a sign that he'd rather be at home watching the game now.

From an Over the Shoulder shot of the policewoman we see the inspector shouting a few instructions, and then walking away.
This is a shot for the identification with the police, as we as the audience will follow them through the plot of the movie.

The main title is blended in in the bottom right corner.

Then we see a Medium Shot of the policewoman asking him, if he doesn't want to know who found the foot. We can see from her body language and facial expressions that it will probably be interesting for the inspector. She looks a little amused and also superior, though she actually isn't, but who found the foot only seems to affect the inspector.

We see her now from behind the inspector, another Over the Shoulder shot for the identification. As the inspector answers "Yes, deeply.", a male voice shouts from behind him "When I call you don't answer...", so the audience knows at once that his father must be standing behind him, as he called the insepector earlier.

The camera changes sides and now films the inspecor from the other direction as he turns around, so we can follow his sight. We see the man from the boat in the beginning and can now make the assumption, that the angler is the father of the inspector and fished the foot out of the water.
The inspecor slowly turns back to the woman in disbelief.

We see a Mid Shot of her again, shrugging with a smile on her face and then putting her hands in the pockets of her coat. She looks like she finds it really amusing and wants to leave the whole thing to the inspector.

The camera changes sides again and we see the inspector again shouting angrily at his father if nothing in Münster can happen without him being involved. That gives the impression that this is not the first time that he has to work with his father and that he's obviously not very excited about it.

Next is a Mid Shot of the inspector's father and the man who was in the boat with him. The father looks surprised, as if he couldn't believe what is so bad about the whole thing and claims that he only found a foot. The other man's got a notepad in his hand and looks rather excited. While the father is still talking he starts walking towards the inspector.

In a long shot we see him introducing himself to the inspector and telling him that he writes for the angler's newspaper. He sounds very exited and almost stutters. The inspector is rather unimpressed and just walks past him. Then he turns at him and says "Good evening." as a sign that he doesn't want to talk to him at all.

The camera changes sides and we see the inspector from behind. This shot shows that he wants to leave now and is not interested in a conversation, but the man still follows him and wants to question him.

Next is an Over the Shoulder shot of the man and the inspector's father, who looks rather unimpressed as well.

We then see a Mid Shot and an Over the Shoulder shot of the inspector, as he angrily says to the man that he's not going to write anything at all. The man looks very surprised and stops talking. He only looks to the inspector's father looking for help. He doesn't look surprised at all and says that that's just the way his son is, cheeky and uncooperative.

The inspector gets really angry, grabs his father and pulls him away from the other man. We see them in a Two Shot and the inspector first looks as if he's going to say something mean, but then obviously decides against it and just asks his father when he started going fishing again. His father answers very knowingly, since he's looking for his inner center again. The inspector is obviously superior, because when he says angrily that his father uses his rod, he looks a little scared and grabs his bag tight.
This conversation shows us more of the relationship between them; it's probably not the best and the son's got more to say than the father.