tes in the soup, and the final reverts back to the parking lot where they start fighting. There is a mixture of cardinal and catalyser events, which take place during the piece which both, help the audience to build an idea of the characters personality and start the story rolling at a faster pace..
The first scene of the sequence consists of static long shots and medium shots. A shot reverse shot in medium close up is used to put stress on Tyler's bizarre request and to cutaway to Jack's bemused reaction. All shots are from low levels, which helps the characters overpower the audience.
The most notable features of this scene is the way the characters are framed in the doorway of the bar, right in the centre of the screen creating a symmetrical looking shot. Either side of them rubbish is wrapped in black bags. However the bags are un-even as on Jack's side the bags are in a large bin, yet on Tyler's side the bags are strewn on the ground. I feel this demonstrates Roland Barthe's semic code. In this case rubbish represents the characters or their philos
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