Twilight
For my film i have decided to base it on the idea of; boy and girl have sperate but similar lives, boy meets girl- then a plot twist. I wanted to base my film opening analysis' on films with a similar story plot, and Twilight is a similar film (more on the super natural side) to the base idea of mine.
00:16-00:20 The film begins with a blank, dark screen with and no sound being playing. This is setting the scene for the beginning of the film and what is going to happen; a blank canvas.
00:20 A voice over -done by one of the main characters- begins to speak in a dreamy tone as if she is just thinking aloud. "Ive never given it much thought to how I would die" This quote is foreshadowing the future and letting the audience know that somehow, somewhere, this character is going to die. It is also an open ended and rehtorical statement, which creates multiple questions ie, 'how does she die?' 'does she come back to life?' etc, this draws the audience in more and wants them to cary on watching to find out what the plot twist is.
00:23 The screen shows a forrest, which is the first scene of the film. The camera pans across the forrest floor to show an innocent deer drinking from a pool of water, when this is shown the voice over speaks again. This can allow the audience to compare the two characters together;both innocent. When the voice over mentions death the calm scene changes to show the deer being chased and hunted. The abrupt change comes with the drigger word of death. This short scene can be compared to the plot of the whole film, which is almost a visual interpretation of the wimple words spoken in 00:20.
00:40 The camera position changes from an over head position (shows the innocence of the deer) to a POV of the hunter. This cretaes a connection between the hunter and the audience, it allows the camera man/ film director to easly convey the feelings the hunter is feeling towards the audience because they then become 'part of the film'. It builds up the tension within the film and can be percieved as a metaphor towards the situation the girl will face in the future.
00:48 The camera position changes between a track (the deer) and POV (of the hunter), both showing fast movements which expresses the urgency of the deer and the dire need of the hunter; despiration and want. By 1:03 the audience are shown two small clips of the hunter running across the screen and then leaping and catching the deer, this is all shown while still keeping the hunter an unknown character. By showing the life of the hunter and the animal, but clearly showing the deer (showing the audience that its innocent) and not showing the identity of the hunter allows the audience to try and picture/imagine what the hunter looks like- as humans are scared of the unkown/not knowing what they are up against.
1:04 The screen clears up by lighting up with white and changes to a clear blue sky. Having the screen light up with white can indicate the innocence or the 'pureness' of the following scene and of the characters personalities- instead of having the screen transition through a black screen into the next film sequence, which might indicate negative 'vibes'. The camera then pans down from the sky to show the main girl holding two kaktasis, and this is when her voice over starts up again.
Having two different sceneries is showing two different lives, while with the use of a voice over, they become linked. Having the link may be foretelling a future relationship between the hunter and the girl or be showing the audience the hunter that is also going to kill her.
1:11 The camera pans onto the girls face, changing from an establishing shot to a close up. Showing the audience a close up of the characters face is one way of introducing her. By clearly showing someones identity to the audience it can help portray that characters' personality or persona, ie they are innocent and have no knowledge of bad things etc.
I'm researching Twilight because it is relevant to my genre. I wrote about all of the angles that represent emotions throughout the first few minutes of the clip because the opening of the film in more relevant for my future project.
I also chose Twilight because of the narrative it follows, its relevant to the romance film I am planning on making because if follows all of the emotional factors a romance features along with the drama and action of it featuring supernatural beings.
Twilight aims itself towards 12-30 year olds, rating itself a 12. Its made for a more female dominating audience because of the over riding decisision underlining the whole series 'Edward vs Jacob' while men might feel intimidated by girl fantasising over characters. The film was originialy aimed for students because the main characters are around the same age, this makes everything allot more relatable for the audeince who are that age.
The family roles within the film are father-daughter and mother-daughter which emphasises that the family is having problems, which is also a world wide thing happening in reality, this links with the social class that is also aimed towards everyone even for the fans.
https://www.slideshare.net/alanacoulter/target-audience-twilight
These are all factors that I am going to use in my film because the genre and audience rating is the very similar to what I'm going to aim for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxjNDE2fMjI
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