Thursday 31 January 2013

PJ: technical Analysis

Dawn Of The Dead (Snyder, 2004)



Shot: Zoom on the door.
Duration: 2 seconds
Mise-En-Scene: The door creaks open creating tension in the room.

Shot: Close Up on the door handle revealing a young girl who is out of focus.
Duration: 5 seconds
Mise-En-Scene: Creates a feeling of apprehension in the room, as no one knows who the girl is or what she looks like.

Shot: Mid- Shot on the couple sleeping.
Duration: 3 seconds
Mise-En-Scene: Sets the scene

Shot: Long Shot of the man waking up to see the girl.
Duration: 4 seconds
Mise-En-Scene: Setting a clam scene.

Shot: Long shot of the girl in the doorway.
Duration: 2 seconds

Shot: Panning in mid-shot.
Duration: 4 seconds

Shot: Repeat of long shot on the girl
Duration: 3 seconds

Shot: Repeat of panning mid shot on the man.
Duration: 2 seconds

Shot: Mid-Shot of girl as she walks out of the shadow with a zoom at the end.
Duration: 4 seconds
Mise-En-Scene: Juxtaposing the calmness of the rest of the scene.

Shot: Repeat of mid-shot on the man
Duration: 2 seconds
Mise-En-Scene: Shows the mans reaction to his daughters face

Shot: ultra high angled shot looking right down on the action
Duration: 1 second

Shot: Close up on the woman
Duration: 1 second
Mise-En-Scene: First shot of the woman looking anxious.

Shot: Over the shoulder shot so the audience gets a good view of the girl with her father,
Duration: 3 seconds
Mise-En-Scene: Gives the audience an idea of what might have happened to the girl due to her face being deformed.

Shot: Two Shot whilst the girl bites her fathers neck.
Duration: 2 seconds
Mise-En-Scene: Sets of the gore and horror side of the scene and the film

Shot: Mid shot of the man screaming whilst his daughter bites him.
Duration: 1 second

Shot: Mid shot of the woman throwing her covers off to help her husband.
Duration: 2 seconds

Shot: Close Up of man screaming whilst his daughter continues to bite him. Pan up following the girl.
Duration: 3 seconds

Shot: Cut to Mid shot on the man as he falls
Duration: 1 second

Shot: long shot as the girl is thrown towards the camera.
Duration: 2 seconds
Mise-En-Scene: Re-establishes the urgency of the woman.

Shot: Slow-mo of a high angle shot on the man falling onto the bed.
Duration: 4 seconds
Mise-En-Scene: Shows the mans injuries and the trouble they are in.

Shot: Close up on the man knocking over the lamp.
Duration: 1 second

Shot: First close up on the girls face.
Duration: 2 seconds
Mise-En-Scene: Shows the deformation of her face.

Shot: Mid shot to zoom on the woman.
Duration: 2 seconds

Shot: Long shot on the girl as she jumps up then the camera retracts.
Duration: 3 seconds
Mise-En-Scene: the odd way the girl jumps shows it is not he, but something else controlling her.

Shot: POV shot of the girl
Duration: 1 second
Mise-En-Scene: puts the audience in the shoes of the man.

Shot: reverts back to the original shot on the girl
Duration: 1 second

Shot: POV shot of the girl running at the door as it is slammed.
Duration: 1 second
Mise-En-Scene: shows the fear of the woman.

Shot: Extreme close up of the woman locking the door.
Duration: 2 seconds

Shot: POV shot of the man on the bed
Duration: 2 seconds

Shot: Over the shoulder shot of the man lying on the bed holing his neck.
Duration: 2 seconds

Shot: POV shot of the man again.
Duration: 1 second

Shot: Zoom on the door as the girl tries to break it down.
Duration: 3 seconds
Mise-En-Scene: shows the unnatural strength of the girl.

Shot: Mid shot of man with blood everywhere.
Duration: 3 seconds

Shot: Mid Shot of woman holding her husbands neck
Duration: 4 seconds

Shot: Over the shoulder shot of man again.
Duration: 2 seconds

Shot: Mid shot pan of woman grabbing a cloth.
Duration: 2 seconds

Shot: POV shot of woman rolling the cloth
Duration: 2 seconds

Shot: Over the shoulder shot of man holing his very bloody neck
Duration: 4 seconds

Shot: Close up of woman telling him to hold the cloth
Duration: 1 second
Mise-En-Scene: Shows the woman may have medical experience.

Shot: Repeat of over the shoulder shot
Duration: 3 seconds

Shot: pan to woman's face as she grabs the phone
Duration: 2 seconds

Shot: Close up of phone
Duration: 1 second

Shot: Mid shot of man dying
Duration: 3 seconds
Mise-En-Scene: Shows the blood everywhere and the damage the daughter has done.

Shot: Mid shot of woman calling an ambulance with no success.
Duration:  2 seconds

Shot: Close up of woman pressing a button on the phone.
Duration: 2 seconds

Shot: Mid shot framed in high angle of man dead
Duration: 2 seconds
Mise-En-Scene: Confirms his death.

Shot: Close up of door banging.
Duration: 2 seconds

Shot: Mid shot of Woman
on the phone as her dead husband gets up and comes into focus.
Duration: 10 seconds


Soundtrack
To start there is a silence, filled with an erie synth in the background. The drums that then come in are a shock to the audience and create dramatic tension. As the background music reaches is crachendo the sound of the zombie screaming is layered on top. There is then an orchesteral soundtrack behind the screams of the man which is fast paced creating tention. The speed and pitch of the soundtrack fit the mood of the scene.

What I Learnt
this clip helped me understand the importance of a soundtrack and also good techniques to keep the audience hooked, such as fast paced editing and cleverly angled shots to reveal, more to the audience than the charactor knows.

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