Frame By Frame Of "The Ninth Gate"

Frame 1: In this frame the camera is doing a wide shot, which is when the subject is taking up the full frame. With this shot it has showed us what is in the room that the character is in to try and give the audience a grasp of what the character is like.

Frame 2: In this frame the camera has closed up onto the chair to signify that something is going to happen with it. From the carpet and furniture around it, you can tell that the character is old fashioned.

Frame 3: In this frame the camera done a tilt angle going up which then gave the audience a close up shot of a rope to indicate that something bad has/ going to happen with it.

Frame 4: In this shot, the camera done a jump cut to get to this angle of the man. From this angle you can see what the man is doing and what is in the room. For example, The photograph next to the man could signify something.

Frame 5:Again, in this shot the camera has done another jump cut to the man's feet to show that he is walking towards the chair in the previous shots. This indicates that the man is going to get onto the chair.

Frame 6: In this frame the camera done a jump cut to the man standing on the chair and grabbing the rope. This shows the audience that he is about to commit suicide by hanging himself.

Frame 7: Here the camera done another jump cut to the man's feet to show that he is rocking the chair to try and make it fall over so that he can hang himself.

Frame 8: Here the camera done a jump cut again to the lights flashing as when the man jumped he broke the light with his force.

Frame 9: In this shot the camera jumped cut again the show that the man is not stood on the chair any more and is hanging himself. It shoes you a close up on his feet, to show the audience that he isn't touching the floor and having a fit when he is loosing his life.

Frame 10: With this shot the camera has done a tilt angle where it moves upwards to show the audience the desk of which the ma was sat at, at the start of the clip.

Frame 11: Here the camera zoomed in on the letter, which the man was writing on at the start of the clip. It then follows on with doing a close up of the letter, as it does this is then uses a shallow focus shot.

Frame 12: In this shot the camera done a pan shot, which means it made moved right to show the audience what is in the room. As it does this shot it then follows through with doing a mid close up of a book rack in the room.

Frame 13: After the close up in the previous shot, the camera continues to do a panning shot to show the audience that the character had a book collection. However it could also indicate that the character was well educated and quite intellectual.

Frame 14: In This shot the camera done a close up of the missing book place which then lead us to another place which is called a graphic shot.

Frame 15: In this shot the camera is zooming in where the missing book was, which then leads the audience into another place that we don't know what it actually is. Which then opens another door to another dark place which then shows us just the names of the actors in the film.