- Fast cutting to show action: increases the pace of the film and creates more suspense and drama.
- "People right now who don't want us to speak.", before the scene cuts directly to a shot of the people he's speaking about: helps the audience to establish whether the characters are good or bad.
- Talks about the priest and then cuts to a shot of him: also helps to establish who the character is.
- After the autopsy scene, it cuts to them discussing people - "she's a doctor."
- Shot fades from being Val's face to Evie's, linking the two characters: this worries the audience, as they assume that Evie could have the same fate as her.
- Cuts repeatedly back to the man emerging from the darkness: reminds the audience constantly of who the villain is. As well as this, the theme of government is often prominent within thrillers, as well as law vs. order - the show of V going against the official leader highlights these conventions within the film.
- Shots of normal people in between others talking: lets the audience know what is happening in the rest of the world, serves as a build up.
- Shots the audience has previously seen in the film are shown in a montage, showing that everything is connected: the audience are shocked to see the links between everything, and try to make sense of what they are seeing; the tension is heightened.
- Shots of riots in a montage beside the dominos scene: accentuates the drama and tension and suggests that it is a big build up - the audience is on the edge of their seats waiting for what will come at the end of it.
- Quick cut to the man yelling: destroys the happy moment between V and Evie.
- "He was all of us." is said before people begin to take their masks off, showing that he really was all of them: gives the audience a sense of revolution, alongside powerful emotion as they feel that "all of us" includes them, too.
SEVEN:
- Montage of close-ups during the title scene: sets the atmosphere of something very tense and on edge, also suggests aspects of horror within the film, as well as making the audience uncomfortable due to the fact the whole image cannot be seen.
- Cross cut to the other detective investigating the homicide and seeming to struggle - he needs the other man in order to solve it, and shows that they're both thinking about the same thing.
- Has them talking about how strange the fingerprints are before cutting to the actual image: builds suspense due to the enigma code created.
- Fast cutting of dispatch shows action and urgency: this increases the pace of the film and makes the audience feel panicked due to the sudden movement within it.
- Fast cutting is also used within another action scene.
- Continuous scenes that revolve around his wife: suggestive foreshadowing that something might happen to her, worries the audience as they feel quite protective of her due to the vulnerable and pleasant side she's shown to them in the film.
- The flashing image of his wife's face: tells the audience what is going on in his mind, letting them into his head causes them to be more immersed within the film and like they are truly connecting with his character.
