This clip in Twilight, where the character Bella is in a panicked fury, trying to pack her belonging to get away from her home as quickly as possible, resembles how we want our teaser trailer to be portrayed. We would like our character in the trailer to show how desperate she is to escape, and show the same drama as shown here in the Twilight clip.As Bella enters her house, runs up the stairs. We see her dad follow her, and the handheld camera follows him up the stairs as well. This make the audience feel as though they are they’re part of the action. It cuts to her going into her room and the camera has jumped ahead so we can see the action from a side on view.
It then cuts again to her and Edward in the room cramming as many of her belongings, into a suitcase on the bed. The camera is at a medium-close up of the two characters faces, keeping focused on their pained expressions and only shows the movements of their arms packing. It doesn’t focus on what they are packing.
As she leaves her room to walk into the bathroom, the camera cuts back to the view from the landing, with her father, who is constantly questioning her, trying to make her stay. She opens the bathroom cupboard, pulling things of the shelf, shoving them in her bag. She then walks back into her room, slamming the door in her dad’s face. Immediately opens it again, walking back into the bathroom. Grabbing more things frantically from the same bathroom cupboard. As she slams the cupboard door shut, it bounces open again, showing her force in closing it. She walks out of the room looking very flustered.
Her actions, of entering and leaving the different rooms many different times, shows she’s not completely decided on what she has to pack, and is thinking in the spare of the moment, grabbing what she can.
This reflects our trailer, because our character is going to be in a panicked rush, to pack her belongings and escape from her house as well. From analysing this film clip, we can get ideas from the way in which they filmed these types of scenes, from the camera shots and movements they use, to make our shots affective, to build up the increasing tension, and show the panic of our character.
The clip is from the film Twilight and here is the link below, however i couldn't find the clip seperate so here part of the film, but the clip i analysed starts at 7.09-8.10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNKVYF5uNqg&feature=related
Nikki
2 comments:
Hi, my name is Jess and I'm a fellow Media Studies student. We are forming a Music Video for our A2 piece. I hope you can comment on our Blog http://lhj-blogathon.blogspot.com/ and we can comment on yours as I'm sure we all know how helpful feedback is, thankyou muchly :)
Also, your analysis is top notch :)
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