Scene Analysis
Memento

Duration: Time: 1.33-----2.33
Mise-en-scene: Lenny and Teddy both show up during this period, and Teddy was dead at the beginning, the situation is Lenny hold a gun to shoot Teddy in a dark room.

Colors: At the beginning is color, after playing back the scene Lenny killed Teddy, change to black and white. Color one start first, during that time, we can see definitely something happened between Lenny and Teddy, and we would curious why he killed Teddy, then color change to black white. Lenny start to talk about himself, then we start getting some information to understand the plot.

Sound: For the color one at the beginning, silence first, then we can hear some mystery music, but just for a very short time, then change to the black and white one, we can hear the monologue of Lenny.

Dialogue: for the color one at first, no any dialogue, but for the black and white part, there was some monologue from Lenny. Then when the color change back to the color, some dialogue between the reception man, and then Lenny shows up, he start talking with Lenny.

Edit: playback, jump cut and the fade transition for changing black and white to color, and almost all the cut used jump cut, and the playback make audience feel intersting and curious about the movie.

Camera: close up, on shoulder, extreme close up, and use the low camera angle, the extream close up for the bullet, gun ,and glasses with blood, just few simple stuff show that someone dead by shot. And the high camera angle for shooting Lenny was lying on the bed of the motel.

Analysis of this peirod: This is the beginning of the movie, so the director are supposed to make audience understand some basic things, first, the color one, Teddy was dead at the beginning, but some playback tell that this is the end or, not happened yet, and then jump cut to the black and white, through the monologue, we can tell Lenny didn’t know what’s going on at all, he was totally lost, and he didn’t know how long he had been stayed at the motel, then the color changed back, Lenny was talking to the reception man, and according to the dialogue, we can see Lenny got some kind of condition, through the picture of Teddy and note on the picture, that can tell Teddy and Lenny are not very familiar or Teddy got some memory problem. And then, Lenny didn’t know if he had told Teddy about his condition or not, that’s more like memory problem. All this setting pave the way for the plot of this movie. Through this one minute, maybe we’re still confused, but all the suspense left to the audience makes people want to know what would happen next. And we can see Lenny killed Teddy at the beginning, obviously, there was something wrong between them, but when Lenny walked out from the motel, they are together and it seems like they are friends, though Lenny didn’t remember Teddy at all, he showed the photo of Teddy to the reception man, and then Teddy shows up, but when Lenny saw him, he was a little bit confused, we would wonder why Lenny got one photo of Teddy, but he can’t remember him at all. And what would happen that lead lenny kill teddy. Tow main character shows up in this one minutes, and the director explained the conflict would happen between these tow man , and at the end , one die, the audience would starting wondering the plot, and become interested in the film, especially for the ending, people would ask what kind of movie it is, and what condition Lenny got, and this condition brings what ending to Lenny, a lot of questions set up in this one minutes, so it’s a good beginning for got audience attention, the proportion between question and answers was in a good balance, the audience got some information and also more questions.