Saturday, 3 January 2009

Twilight


Twilight starts with a woodland scene, the camera tracks up over a log and looks down on a deer that is eating, the deer looks up and turns it head around then starts eating again. There is a voice over were Bella Swan is saying that a good way to die would be in place of a person she loved. There is then a close up of the deer eating, the voice over stops. The camera changes to another close up of the deer but this time it is filmed through leaves and is hand held, this makes the audience feel as is someone is watching the deer or like they them selves are. The camera cuts to the sky and you can see the tree tops, it then tracks back down quite fast. It is very clear the camera is hand held now as the person (who's point of view we are seeing from) runs through the branches and towards the deer. The deer runs and the camera runs after it, there are a lots of fast cuts here as you see the deer leaping over things and then the camera goes back to handheld and the person following the deer. There is diegetic sound throughout this and the music suggests panic, urgency but also danger, this could be for the deer or the person/thing chasing it. This makes the audience feel already as if something supernatural or strange is going on as there are no suggestions that the thing following the deer is another animal so we are left to asume that it is a human, of sorts, the music contributes to this also. The shots of the deer running increase which makes you think that there is more than one person following it, the deer makes a leap over a log and you see, only for a second, a person, wearing normal clothes (jeans, hoodie) and probably male grabs the deer. This confirms thoughts of something super natural as what normal human would chase a deer in the woods and be able to catch it with their bare hands, hunters use guns so the audience realises that these people are not 'normal'. The screen then flashes white and then goes and a grey/blue colour as the voice over of Bella Swan starts up again. The camera then tracks down and you see a young girl, who we presumme is the girl talking in the voice over as she talks about leaving home. the sound track is still playing but the frantic music fades into peaceful but sad sounding guitars. The voice over continues and the begining of the film ends and the main story starts.

2 comments:

Zoƫ Benjafield said...

very well explained, Twilight is an awesome movie!

Rachel, Lucy, Nikki and Dale said...

thank you :D