Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Final Destination (2000) opening

Sound
-         -     Slow and eerie music
-         -     Thunder - dramatic, make people jump
-         -     Knife blades - connote death/murder
-         -     Quiet screaming
Lighting
-          -    Low lighting – dark and mysterious
-          -    Night time
-          -    Flashes of light, lightening – dramatic

Camera shots
-          Close up of skeleton toy – connote death
-          Mid shot of shadow of skeleton – looks like someone hanging themselves
-          Close up of fan – emphasis of the blades, danger
-          Close up of plane ticket – Alex Browning, identify character
-          Close up – book about France, inform audience
-          Close up of fan blades – look like knifes
-          Close up of the word ‘devil’ – connote death and danger
Camera movement
-         Pan down the window at start of film – start negatively
-          Pan across to the fan, making a knife’s blade sound – danger and murder
-          Zoom in, image of a guillotine – execution
Editing
-          Lightning flashes – some people fear lightning
-          In red the words “this is the end” are written in a book, fades to black but the writing is still on screen – emphasize and focus
-          Red connotes blood
-          Fade outs between images of the devil and people dead – scary images

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