The Stairwell-Shane Meadows

• The opening scene is of a light switch, it has been shot at a slanted angle to show that the film is not high budget, Hollywood film but is a gritty, low budget film
• The lighting in the film is mostly dark to make it more edgy and gives the audience the impression something sinister is going to happen
• The first character we see is a male with dark clothing on and his hood up, their is bright lights shining from behind him so we can't see his face because of the shadow from the light, this makes the character seem mysterious and the audience would automatically assume he has done something wrong
• It also looks like he is running away from something/someone 
• The lighting is very bright on the female character and because the camera is also very close to her face, the audience gets a good look at her
• The way the camera keeps changing focus from one character to the other really quickly it makes the audience fell like something big is going to happen between the two
• The music throughout is very repetitive and fits in with the urban location of the film, it stops when it reaches the 'climax' of the film
• The film ends with the two characters running into eachother as they were travelling opposite ways up/down the stairwell, its an anti climax because the audience were expecting some sort of conflict between the two characters