In this blog I am going to analyse four different film openings that were made by previous college students. I am going to assess the MISE-EN-SCENE, CAMERA, SOUND and EDITING of the following films -
VIOLET
THE LIST
I have already analysed the film opening entitled ANGELDUST; I am now going to move on to VIOLET. Doing these blogs will really compound my understanding of the ways in which films use mise-en-scene, camera-work, sound and editing effectively and how they help the audience to identify the genre of that film. It also will show me how thriller films make their openings grabbing and thrilling.
VIOLET
The first thing that I noticed when watching the opening of VIOLET was the use of a shaky camera, which immediately gave me a sense of disorientation and confusion. This could perhaps signify that the film would go on to encompass elements of mystery and/or secretive themes. The shaky camera also makes it quite disturbing; this is reiterated by the mise-en-scene of the clip, in which the girl is wearing a white gown streaked with red blood. The juxtaposing colours (white signifying innocence, red signifying danger) suggests that the girl has perhaps lost her innocence.
The editing of the clip is also interesting. It shows lots of flashing images, such as a bloody bath tub, a bloody knife, a violet in a forest and a slaming door. It is also fluctuates between images in colour and images in black and white, differentiating between what happened in the past and what is happening in the present. This is an interesting way of narrating the different tenses and is used a lot in thrillers.
I have already analysed the film opening entitled ANGELDUST; I am now going to move on to VIOLET. Doing these blogs will really compound my understanding of the ways in which films use mise-en-scene, camera-work, sound and editing effectively and how they help the audience to identify the genre of that film. It also will show me how thriller films make their openings grabbing and thrilling.
VIOLET
The first thing that I noticed when watching the opening of VIOLET was the use of a shaky camera, which immediately gave me a sense of disorientation and confusion. This could perhaps signify that the film would go on to encompass elements of mystery and/or secretive themes. The shaky camera also makes it quite disturbing; this is reiterated by the mise-en-scene of the clip, in which the girl is wearing a white gown streaked with red blood. The juxtaposing colours (white signifying innocence, red signifying danger) suggests that the girl has perhaps lost her innocence.
There was music running throughout the whole of the opening to VIOLET, quite a sinister sound which connoted, to me, innocence and chilren. Because the girl was murdered this could highlight the idea that she was too young to die/died wrongfully.
I enjoyed this piece of work which was created by previous students, however it has taught me a lot about film openings and how not to do them. I found VIOLET to be extremely cliche with no new ideas or concepts - and I found the acting to be quite dead. It has shown me that although we do not need to plan a whole film sequence, plot is important because it needs to be interesting enough for the viewer to want to watch on. VIOLET did not make me want to watch on.
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