The plot line follows freak accident death's that happen to a group of teenagers after they cheat death in a plane accident, which one of the characters had a premonition about.
The film is most likely aimed at an audience of an age gap between 15 - 25, as the film has an age rating of 15 and as it follow's teenagers it would probably be aimed at a younger audience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si8RLhCkNMw
The opening scene is around 3 minutes long before it fades out in to credits. I shall analyse what the audience will interpret and expect from the introduction of the film.
The opening scene uses pathetic fallacy by using the weather. The camera has uses a long shot that tilted upwards giving the impression that we are seeing this from someone's eyes. The view is of dark thunderous clouds with lightning, this to the audience could represent many things it would give the impression that something bad was going to happen that they're is a sense of evil and anger.
The camera then pans down a window giving the audience a clue to the mise-en-scene. This is done slowly giving a creepy feeling as it the camera then focuses on a doll with a demon like face painted on it hanging from a string. The camera then focuses on a shoot of the floor of the shadow of the doll swinging on the string, this to the audience looks like a man being hanged, it represents death which suggest's this is going to be a theme of the film to the audience which is also a common feature of horror.
A common house object is also used in the opening scene, a fan. The fans gives off a sound that is like a growl before they realise its a fan, creating a little suspense here. The growl could be interpreted as a sign of danger.
Death is a common feature in this opening scene as it used again by showing the book "Death of a sales man" which is focused and meant for the audience to take notice of.
The fan the "coincidently" flicks a book on to a page of a past historic event of where a tragedy that had lost lives was shown, the coincidence of the book opening on the page also suggest's demonic forces at work. While this is showing soft screams of women are heard in the background blatantly showing the terror foreshadowing that terror is going to be a part of the film.
The music to the opening scene only uses one instrument, a violin. The violin is used to create suspense by having a slow tempo using either low and long notes creating a dark atmosphere or either high notes changing speeding up the rate of suspense for the audience.
An obvious sign that this is going to be a Horror of demonic film is that a series of demon like creatures is shown in a flash behind the spinning fan. A page also is flipping through a book, again, and momentarily pauses of the word evil, if the audience has yet again not picked up any of the blatant foreshadowing.
Finally the scene ends on a close up of a book using a tilted angle to focuses on a book with the words This Is The End in red writing. The rest of the book fades out and all that is left is the red writing. The words and the colour has meaning to the audience, the red colour represents blood and death, and the words foreshadow the end of the film, though they're not sure what going to end but they're most likely to guess that its either going to the end of the world of the end of
someone's life depending on the events about to take place.
Sophie Grayling
you have studied this closely but not really analysed it in the depth required - note the camera angles and shots used, the transitions, sound, titles etc. use as much technical language as you can when conducting analysis (use the sheet I gave you for TV drama to help here)
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