!!Key tricks!!
Mise-En-Scene + Camera Work
Sound + Editing
Sound
Music
Contrapetal music
Diegetic/non-diegetic
Off screen/ on screen
Voice over
Effects
Dialogue
Editing
Special effects
Transition
Order of narrative
Pace
Screentime
Camera Work
Framing (mid/long/wide)
Angle (high/low)
Movement (pan/dolly)
Mise-En-Scene
Costume
Lighting
Actors
Makeup
Props
Setting
Ghost Ship 2002 opening scene analysis:
Sound:
Editing:
One of the 1st scenes that is vital to help show the storyline in this film is the eyeline match of the singer in red and a crew member wearing a light blue suit. By using a repetition of the eyeline match it helps the audience recognise patterns and potentially link anything to the future plot with how people are brought into the storyline. For example: when the man 1st pasts the singer they exchange a very long gaze which looks exactly like an exchange of information but without the words. This continues later when the singer keeps a close eye on this man to see where he is and making sure the plan is going as well as possible. So overall, the use of the camera work eye match is good because it establishes plot in this case.
Another good way of editing in this 1st scene is when as the action starts to pick up, that cute get shorter. By doing this an illusion is created to the audience that something bad will happen very soon and it is preparing us for it to happen. Along the lines of fast cuts in a short length of time, this also makes the audience’s mind disorientated and think of every possibility that could happen which can be very confusing. After these short-cuts and action are all followed by a long/lengthy shot. Long shots after a lot of action lets the audience catch up to the plot and process the aftermath of the action, or in this case a mass murder by using lights.
Mise-En-Scene:
Camera Work:
The costumes of the actors play a huge role in how each character is seem and portrayed. For example: the young girl wearing white and the singer wearing red. Both these colours totally contrast in the meaning they have behind them because white typically means innocence and purity, yet red usually means passion, love and blood (in this instance). These are the only 2 characters wearing these colours so this tells us that they are going to be main characters in some way. In this storyline, the red that the singer is wearing foreshadows her future character because she is the mastermind behind the muder and the little girl is the only one left alive in the middle of the dance floor when she is surrounded by blood which tells us that she is a god characters because she seems mortified.
Another brilliant way of camera work in this opening scene is when the camera changes its focus from the people in the background to the blooded wire which cuts across the screen. This is a good way to show the devastation of the articulate mass murder that just happened to a very simple way of doing. It shows that a little wire can do a lot of damage. Also, another reason why focusing on just the wire cutting across the scene it helps to clear up any confusion about what just happened - because it all happened very quickly. So the straight shot of the wire trying to stabilize itself and oscillating back and forth is effective because it also lets the audience process what just happened.