ALGORITHM

Genre: Conspiracy Thriller
Director: Jonathan Schiefer
IMDB synopsis: A freelance computer hacker discovers a mysterious government computer program. He breaks into the program and is thrust into a revolution.
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Camera Angles: 
Birds eye/High angle, made black and white to appear as though the audience at watching the events through CCTV footage.
High angle - sorting out SIM cards
Tilt down/Establishing - Phone company building
Front-Tracking/Side-tracking - Hacker moving towards the fence door
Close-up - Lock-picking
Deep shot - background, hacker working + foreground, fence. Almost voyeuristic
Long shot - Hacker moving towards phone company
Long shot - Hacker in corridor setting down bag. Rule of thirds evident
Mid-shot - simple cut, same action going on
Establishing shot - House

Cuts: 
Simple cuts, no fade-ins or other such business. Sometimes the clips are cut during the same shot to speed up lapses in time For example, the hacker is seen walking away from the camera, and then the clip is cut to where he's walked away a little further.

Lighting/Color: 
Low saturation with a green-grey tint. Low contrast also. Natural lighting.

Sound: 
Dialog during the interrogation scene. The rest of the film features the running score of tense, piano music. The hacker voices over the opening to address the reader about his motives.

Costumes:
Interrogation Scene - Smart suited agents and a prisoner in light coloured scrubs
Hacker - Dark casual clothing. Browns and greens, masculine.

Font/Credits: 
Various production companies featured at the very beginning. The title font is slip and simple