1. 9 Slide Analysis
Taxi Driver

2. 1
This first shot is one of
the most important shots
in a Film Noir however it
is used last in a title
sequence. ‘The Directed
by’ shows who was the
most important person
who was making the film.
In the Movie Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese is the
director.

3. 2
The creators of the
movie Columbia,
shows who help
create the film and
can sometimes what
represent what type a
film is.

4. 3
3rd Shot still in the title
sequence, the title
sequence is long due to
the characters names
been shown. A Notable
actor of Robert DeNiro
This is called Taxi Driver.
Shows the viewers
obviously what the film is
called, but the texture of
the writing complements
the colour of an American
Taxi .

5. 4
The background of this shot
(mise-en-scene) shows a
view created by a wet
window effect, this is blurry
however due too the
American theme we know
this is set in America on a
night time.

6. 5
A pan shot was used in
this photograph for the
man walking into the Taxi
Driver office, applying for
the job, the pan shot
follows him too the chair
which starts the other
conversation with
another man.

7. 6
• This shot is an edited eye line match
shot to show the conversation between
the 2 men. The shot can show the man
looking up to the other as be
recognized as a bigger character.

8. 7
The 7th shot can be
shown in three ways :
Match on Action – to
show the conversation
between the men
- Eye line match
and extreme close up on
the male , to show
emotional affect in the
conversation.

9. 8
For this photographic
shot you can say it’s a
staged position
between the main
conversation and the
background, the
camera focus looks
like a shallow focus to
show both meanings
of each conversation,
however the
conversation is digetic
but non-synchronous.

10. 9
The handing over
the of the
documents was
used with a jump
cut , we only see
this for a second
as the camera
tilts back up too
the conversation
very quickly.