Wednesday, 7 October 2009

Opening Scenes Of Other Films


Paradise Lost

The start of in the film was different to the other two films because it had a bit where there was a woman lying in a white room crying tied on bed. It is similar with the other films as well because she is also in danger. She is screaming and there is zooms to her eye. This was done to show the reflection of the person or creature torturing her. It’s a really bloody scene and the torture is shown step by step to show what the woman is being through. This is done so that the audience would feel sorry for the woman. Then it jumps to a group of tourist in Brazil. This makes the audience want to know what happened next. Why the woman is in that situation and who that person is. The scene being shown in Brazil is clear because of the Brazilian song at the background. It’s a happy song and they are travailing in a coach around Brazil. The driver is not concentrating on his driving and he is really fast. There is a zoom in to the baby drinking milk in this scene showing her purity showing that she is not aware of anything. The characters are shown vunrable by the camera angles. When the characters are shown from an birds eye view or a high angle then they seem smaller and weaker. It is a frightening scene but there is comedy in it as well. The main character which is a man is scared and tells the driver to slow down and the girls are not interested in his opinion and they joke and laugh about it. When the coach whizzes pass a motorbike then the music changes from happy to a song that creates pressure and implies that there is going to be something wrong. Straight after this they have an accident and the coach slides to the edge of the mountain. It is stuck and the camera zooms around the wheel showing that they are in danger. There is a 180 and 360 angle in this scene showing everyone running around trying to get out the coach screaming and yelling. Loud noises , yells and needing help is found in all horror films it is a conevtion to horror films. When everyone escapes from the coach then the coach rolls of the mountain, this created tension to the audience because they were worrying about the character s in the coach and the innocent baby with the mother. The effect on the viewers by this shot is that they want her to save her baby and want to know that the innocent baby is safe. The shot of the coach was from a high angle and it was shown from the characters eyes as if it was them looking down to the coach. This could have been done for the audience to feel like they were a part of them as well.

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