The film, The Bourne Supremacy, starts with a series of flashbacks. During these flashbacks the camera is very shaky, which is down to the use of hand held cameras in the opening to The Bourne Supremacy. The flashbacks involve the character travelling in a moving car and the other flashbacks focus on particular objects, words, people, number and places. At first the transition is fairly slow but gradually the transition between the flashbacks get faster and faster. As the rate of the transition increases, the images become hazy and the voices, which run alongside the memories begin to echo. By doing this the director makes the audience unsure of weather or not the person, who is having the flashback is conscious or not. As the flashback ends, we hear a woman’s voice. She is begging, in a foreign language, somebody not to shot her, however we assume that she does get shot because we hear a gun shot.
We first meet our main character, Jason Bourne, as he wakes up from the flashbacks. The camera is still hand held and at this point we have a close up aerial shot of Bourne’s face. This shot shows the audience the characters anguish from what he has seen in his flashback. We know that its night time from the mise-en-scene as we can see the moonlight shining in from the window, lighting up the small dark room that the character is in. This lighting lights up Jason Bourne’s face and reveals that he is sweating, furthering the audiences belief that the character is distressed by what he has seen in his flashbacks. At the bottom of the screen we are told that we this film is set in ‘Goa, India‘, which creates an enigma code as we wonder why a man who is clearly not from Goa is in the city. As the Camera pans round to the right, we see Jason getting up to go to the bathroom. When Bourne is in the bathroom, he switches the light on and the camera cuts to a mid-shot of Jason inside the bathroom. Whilst in the bathroom Jason is searching for something in the medicine cabinet and the noise he makes wakes up a woman, who we presume to be his girlfriend. This is confirmed later on in this scene when after she has tried to comfort him she strokes her face. The camera cuts back to Jason in the bathroom and we can see the woman entering the bathroom. The camera switches to a point of view shot of the woman, who’s face seems to be confused as to why Bourne is awake. The camera cuts to a mid shot of Jason assuring the woman that he is ok and that he is only awake because he has a headache. He does not tell the woman about what he has seen in his flashback. As they leave the bathroom, the camera follows Jason to the balcony and we see a busy highway. We then cut to an over-the-shoulder shot, which shows Bourne leaning on the balcony and then to a two shot which sees the female asking Jason a question. We can see the characters relationship and body language with each other in this shot. As the camera cuts to a close up of Jason, he confides in the woman about his flashbacks and then the camera cuts to an over-the-shoulder shot of the woman, so we can see her reaction. During the conversation between the couple there are various close up and over-the-shoulder shots of the characters to show how they respond to what is being said. As the characters finish talking, we can hear music, which is very soft and calming yet also has an air of mystery. An extreme long shot is shown of the bungalow, establishing where the whole scene that has just been seen was set.
The camera switches to a mid shot of Jason sitting down at his desk, and the camera moves in closer to show his face. As he begins to write about what his flashback showed, as the woman in the previous scene told him to do, the camera cuts to a mid shot which shows Bourne writing, but it also includes a shot of the patio outside, showing that it is lighter and that some time has passed since he woke up from his flashback. The camera cuts back to a mid shot as he turns off his desk light, where we can only see he’s silhouette.
We first meet our main character, Jason Bourne, as he wakes up from the flashbacks. The camera is still hand held and at this point we have a close up aerial shot of Bourne’s face. This shot shows the audience the characters anguish from what he has seen in his flashback. We know that its night time from the mise-en-scene as we can see the moonlight shining in from the window, lighting up the small dark room that the character is in. This lighting lights up Jason Bourne’s face and reveals that he is sweating, furthering the audiences belief that the character is distressed by what he has seen in his flashbacks. At the bottom of the screen we are told that we this film is set in ‘Goa, India‘, which creates an enigma code as we wonder why a man who is clearly not from Goa is in the city. As the Camera pans round to the right, we see Jason getting up to go to the bathroom. When Bourne is in the bathroom, he switches the light on and the camera cuts to a mid-shot of Jason inside the bathroom. Whilst in the bathroom Jason is searching for something in the medicine cabinet and the noise he makes wakes up a woman, who we presume to be his girlfriend. This is confirmed later on in this scene when after she has tried to comfort him she strokes her face. The camera cuts back to Jason in the bathroom and we can see the woman entering the bathroom. The camera switches to a point of view shot of the woman, who’s face seems to be confused as to why Bourne is awake. The camera cuts to a mid shot of Jason assuring the woman that he is ok and that he is only awake because he has a headache. He does not tell the woman about what he has seen in his flashback. As they leave the bathroom, the camera follows Jason to the balcony and we see a busy highway. We then cut to an over-the-shoulder shot, which shows Bourne leaning on the balcony and then to a two shot which sees the female asking Jason a question. We can see the characters relationship and body language with each other in this shot. As the camera cuts to a close up of Jason, he confides in the woman about his flashbacks and then the camera cuts to an over-the-shoulder shot of the woman, so we can see her reaction. During the conversation between the couple there are various close up and over-the-shoulder shots of the characters to show how they respond to what is being said. As the characters finish talking, we can hear music, which is very soft and calming yet also has an air of mystery. An extreme long shot is shown of the bungalow, establishing where the whole scene that has just been seen was set.
The camera switches to a mid shot of Jason sitting down at his desk, and the camera moves in closer to show his face. As he begins to write about what his flashback showed, as the woman in the previous scene told him to do, the camera cuts to a mid shot which shows Bourne writing, but it also includes a shot of the patio outside, showing that it is lighter and that some time has passed since he woke up from his flashback. The camera cuts back to a mid shot as he turns off his desk light, where we can only see he’s silhouette.
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