Genre Research Thriller: Nightcrawler

Common Camera Angle and Shots

• Eye-level
• Close-up
• Medium Close-up
• Over the Shoulder Shot 
• Medium Shot
• Long Shot
• Three Person Shot
• Two Person Shot
• Medium Long Shot
• Wide Shot

Common Camera Movement

• Tracking
• Tilt
• Pan

Common Editing

• Cross-Cutting
• Eye-line match
• Jump Cut
• Reaction Shot
• Reverse Shot

Common Sound

• Incidental Music
• Dialogue
• Non-Diegetic 
• Diegetic Sound such as the camera noise, police siren, heavy breathing, car engine, and paper turning.
• Ambient Sound

CLAMPS

• Costume: The actors are all seen wearing casual clothing like jeans, jacket, t-shirt, and sneakers but at some scene the actors are wearing formal attire like a suit and business formal wear when working or at the police station such as the interrogation scene and the negotiation scene between Lou and Nina. 
• Lighting: Most of the low-key dark lighting was used to create a sense of suspicion and mystery against the news director (Rene Russo) who is somehow increasing her station's ratings in order to profit. The lighting also hints at all the crimes across the city Lou captures on his camera.
• Actors: The actor Jake Gyllenhaal (Lou) is a smart man that sells crime scenes to a TV News Manager named Nina. The actors all had to look and act a specific way that relates to living in a crime filled city where everyone is greedy for money and the police is always involved.
• Make-up is mostly used for wounds, blood, for female characters such as Nina the TV news manager, and to create an illusion of being dirty and having scars. 
• Props: The props often used in the movie include vehicles especially because Lou transports around the city using a car most of the time and vehicles is used at the car crash scene. The camera that Lou always carries around with him is the main prop that make Lou the main role in the movie.
• Setting: Most of the scenes in the movie happens in the city in big offices and stations such as the place Nina works for. Most of the time we see scenes of him the car driving around because he out filming different crime scenes so most of the setting takes places on the road.

Elements

• The elements in this movie include a crime scenes and dead corpse's.
• There is a lot of police interaction and interrogation and negotiation.

Elements I Didn't Like

• What I didn't like was that the movie was underrated and deserved to be nominated for the Oscar's but sadly it wasn't. 

Elements I Liked

• I loved the acting in the movie and it brought a sense of excitement to watch and suspense especially because the lighting of the entire movie evoked it.