The Quick and the Dead

In this particular scene, the very first shot is a long shot of a person cantering on a horse. This long shot then turns into an extreme long shot which reveals the mise-en-scene illustrating the dead, deserted mountains which emphasises how there is no civilisation and that she is all alone. Shortly following a diegetic sound of her horse which adds to the typical western genre.
The hand held camera does a slow establishing shot from left to right doing a mid shot of a pony and does a low shot portraying the dry soil of which a man is digging up. When the man hears the diegetic sound of the horse, he jumps up with a close up of his face illustrating his confusion of where that noise came from. After the man notices the horse, he scurries for his shot gun and then a non-diegetic, high pitched noise portraying his next action isn't going to be good. The high key lighting would typically symbolise that it is going to be a happy movie, however we already assume something bad is going to happen. Therefore the opening of this film has already challenged this stereotype.
The man then points his gun at the person on the horse and we see a point of view shot from the camera which also reveals the mise-en-scene which emphasises how alone they are. The man then fires giving out a diegetic sound of the gun shot and knocks the rider off their horse, the distance between the rider and the shooter is revealed to be very far, therefore we know he is used to shooting due to him being right on target. Furthermore, the director has used the rule of thirds to make the man seem more experienced, we know this because the rider is directly in the middle of the screen. The man then runs over to the person and prods them with his shot gun to see if they were dead. This makes me feel anxious as the camera does a mid close-up shot on his face and i expected something bad was going to happen. Looking down at the person, they roll over and hits the man onto the floor, there is a low shot of the man lying on the floor illustrating how he didn't succeed in killing the rider. Then it cuts to a high shot of the rider standing in the way of he bright sun, looking down at the man. There is a slight shimmering glow around them from the sun which could portray heroic status, therefore we already assume they're going to be the 'good guy' of this film. Shortly after the rider takes their hat off and throws it on the man revealing that the rider is in fact a woman. This is very contrasting as me personally would expect the hero to be a man as this is the usual stereotype.
After that, the scene then changes and the camera tracks from left to right foreshadowing the mise-en-scene of a graveyard, this could signify death and that something bad is going to happen. As the women walks through the town on her horse there are many eyeline matches as the people of the town watch her mysteriously and close the shutters on their windows. There is then a zooming out of the camera turning into an extreme long-shot emphasising the deserted town as if everyone is scared to walk outside their houses. This makes me feel uncomfortable because I would not like to be in her position.
Additionally, I realised the camera was handheld after she jumped off her horse and she went and sat down to have her shoes polished. This gives the film a sense of realism. The lighting at this point is still a high key tone, however there is an orangey, brown mist/tint to the mise-en-scene. This portrays the fact that they are in the middle of a desert, this emphasises the genre being western due to that being the stereotype of how a western should look.
Minutes later the women barges through into the low key lit bar and there is a static camera revealing the rule of thirds of the door from the inside as she walks in. As the door opens a light shines through from the sun coming from behind her. This could symbolise that she is heroic. However, it may also depict that the good is behind her and that she is walking into danger.