CUFFS QUESTION 2

Analyse how far the extract depicts the police's point of view rather than the criminals' point of view.

In this extract we can clearly tell that the police's view is depicted more than the criminal's view as it is mainly focused on the police. There are more close up shots of the police officers than the criminals an example of this would be at the beginning of the extract in the restaurant and there were longer shots of the criminals. When they broke into the shop, the camera angles and shots were far shots are wide angles as one of them was on the CCTV camera which shows that they won't shown close up. Therefore, this is an example of the police's view being depicted more than the police.

The costumes that the criminals are wearing suggest stereotypical costumes as they are wearing balaclavas to cover their faces with cut out holes for their eyes and mouths as we can see by one of the very few close up shots of them. Another example is when a few shots wouldn't been seen by the police's point of view for example the CCTV footage which we know got recorded because we as the audience saw it as one of the shots of them breaking in and the police didn't see them.

A final example of when the police's point of view is depicted more than the criminal's is the editing in the scene. It allows the police to predominate for example, shots of the criminal get followed by shots of the police reacting to them. There is one point in the scene when we can see the criminals through the window and then next shot is cut to the police officers receiving the message through their radios that a robbery is happening at that time, then they rush into their cars and get straight on with their job and the action.