Wednesday, 2 November 2011

1408 title sequence analysis

14 secs: Black screen with the production company, "Dimension films present". Non diagetic music, scary tones in the music,slow paced.
29 secs: Sideshot of road to make it look big and ominious. Their is a pathetic fallacy where the weather represents the mood in which the film conveys, a dark and scary, miserable set of events.
35 secs: Camera pans across the scene, actor name appears."Samuel L. Jackson"
42 secs: Title fades in  off the car lights, the title looks a s if the title is parallel with the rain. "1408". The title also could connote a ghost by the wat the font is conveyed.
45 secs: Car stops as if the its gone the wrong way. Camera shot tracks car.
56 secs: POV shots of the lost character.
59 secs: Close up of character looking at map, this connotes that he`s lost and doesn`t no about his location.
75 secs: The car pulls up at the hotel near and amongast the woods. This connotes that the hotel the chararcter is going to investigate is cut off, this then connotes a typical horror movie, alone, cut off and no help.
77 secs: Some more actors names.
84 secs: Torrential rain while the audience see a spooky bridge, this also connotes that the destination is cut off and in the middle of nowhere, typicalof a horror. The bridge also connoted a moat.
88 secs: POV shot of the house, but it`s not the main characters POV, it`s someone elses which connotes someone elso watching.
93 secs: The character is inside the hotel, the Mise en Scene is nuetral, not bright but not dark, in the middle.
96 secs: The main character announces his presence, introduces himself.
102 secs: Dialect- Mike the main charater talks to the ownersof hotel who have the ghost problem.
113 secs: Shot reverse shot of the two parties discussing the ghost problem.

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