Atonement opening Scene - by Helen

HI

This scene opens with the digetic sound of type writing, it sounds very harsh and makes the audience feel quite nervous. As the scene continues the typing gets quicker and a non-digetic song starts. The first shot we see is of a dolls house then it continues to show animals all lined up outside the dolls house. This is incongruesous, usually you would expect to sea a boat with animals not a posh dolls house. maybe this is suggesting that this is how the characters feel in the film. The shot then carries on panning through to show us the animals then we see a girl who has her back to us and is what we assume typewriting. The decor of the room is floral and quite old fashioned therefore I assume it is not set in the 21st century. There is a pan round and an extreme close-up of the girls forhead and eyes. There is an extreme close up of her typing- this could represent what she is writing is so important. We then see the words 'the end' on the bottom of the page and she rips it of and puts it in a folder with some other paper.

I think that this is very effective and makes me want to watch the rest of the film.