LO1 - Understanding Media Products and their Makers

1. SCENE ANALYSIS
KUNAL LAD

2. THE CAR CRASH
 OVERVIEW
In this scene we witness a build up to a car crash causing
a terrific turn in the story this is one of the disruptions. In
this scene we see that the mother is troubled that her
husband “seems a bit distant” as she says, when she said
that we see that the husband looks to her like he’s about
to confess to her about something important but he’s
too late. The way the scene was made was quite
surprising filling it with pure shock as the next scene
shows a car coming out of nowhere. This had set the
tone for the whole film.

3. For the first disruption on the movie it begins showing an establishing shot that allows us
to quickly understand where they are located and what is happening. As shown above
we are given quite a basic shot, not much has been applied at all, its just a normal
boring family drive, this was set up by Neil Marshall to make his watchers feel calm and
to not expect nothing more than scenes of the ride home. This allowed him make the
car crash scene a traumatic experience.

4. In this shot we have Sarah talking to her daughter having a light back and forth happy
conversation. Analysing this shot we would call this a two shot, it shows close up on
Sarah as a medium shot with the husband unfocused on the right. This scene shows a
conversation between Sarah and her daughter but the way this has been captured is
so that you are getting a glimpse of Sarah’s personality showing a connection. This was
shown to be a build on the audiences understanding of Sarah’s daughters death
understanding her reactions of the impact, these scenes quite simply summed up their
connection.

5. Here we see a simple side close-up shot generally used in filming a conversation in a
car. Here Sarah had finished talking to her daughter and turned back around to look
and talk to her husband as he looked troubled. This was a shot that allowed the
audience to see the husbands emotion which showed to be completely disconnected
as there was no interaction with his daughter at all. His facial expression is clearly shown
with this type of shot as we are to tell that he looks unhappy as we know that his having
an affair. As well as analysing the husband this automatically tells the audience the
speed they are travelling at with the blur of the trees going past in the background.

6. We are then given a wide angle shot inside the car were we are given a chance to see
the whole family altogether. This allows us to see the expressions shown towards each
other and then watching the couple talking to each other. Again we see Sarah looking
concerned and worried where as the husband looks uncomfortable as he aches to
keep the secret away from Sarah. This shot was made to seem that the husband was
about to break the news just before the unexpected happens from the husband not
keeping his eyes on the road.

7. The following scene showed to be a wide angle shot where we are given a view of
Sarah and her husband, it is just like the shot before but this time with the parents at the
sides of the screen they have replaced the daughter with the car approaching, this
was a implied scene that Marshal set up implying that the daughter was going to be
killed by the car. With sort of an over the shoulder shot we are given a sort of close up
on both characters as well as the car that comes out of nowhere. Here whiteness Sarah
confronting her husband saying that he seemed distant and this must of threw him off
guard as he completely forgets to still look out. This quickly shows the approach of the
car to then swerve towards the car the family is in.

8. Here we are given extremely quick shots showing the crash at real time speed showing many angles. To the
audience this would be shown as quick as flashes but it would be something they would have not missed being very
bold shots that would be the main part on shocking and scaring his audience, it shows a great amount of detail of
the whole car crash. These scenes was given major effect from the sounds played, we here sharp and loud sounds of
the wheels skidding, metal colliding, glass breaking and the sound of the poles piercing flesh. The first shot shows a
mid shot of the cars colliding, the image below and to the left shows a close up on the pipes going through the
other cars front window then at the bottom we have a close up on the pipe going through the husbands head
showing a lot of blood being splattered.

9. The final shot of the first disruption shown in the film ends with a overhead view shot that
slowly pulls away (pans out) from the close up section of the crash to show a clear view
of the disaster caused. This would be allowing the audience to see the blood pouring
on the floor from the back of the car implying the daughter has been killed, we also see
clearly that the cars engine is all smoking up showing the damages to the cars. This shot
showed to the contrast from all the fast cuts showed before allowing the audience to
take in the shock.

10. THE HOSPITAL SCENE
OVERVIEW
The next disruption is shown at the hospital, instead of a
sort of physical disruption this was more of a mental
disruption that happens to Sarah waking up to the shock
from the death of her daughter and husband, we see
Sarah traumatised with panic.
SCENE ANALYSIS
The first scene of this shows a wide close up on Sarah
in her hospital bed. We see that these scenes showed to be dark and given a green filter giving everything a ill
effect, this affect was implemented by Neil Marshal to show nothing would be the same again for Sarah. In this shot
we are given the chance to see her facial expression and her cuts from the crash. From this close up we see that
Sarah looks very confused yet scared like she's been left in the dark.
We then watch Sarah get out of her hospital be to then enter the corridor still keeping the green filter but given more
of a stronger contrast showing this is what it looks like to Sarah. This shot is carried out with a wide angle with a slow
zoom to a mid shot on Sarah as she stands in the middle of the corridor. Here we see the light further back turning off
showing isolation.
We then see the follow up of close up with on Sarah’s face as a dolly zoom with the camera pulling in whilst the lens
zooms out done as a camera trick to see how narrow the corridor is. This was done brilliantly as it was a technique
that showed Sarah’s mind of realisation with an unsettling feeling.

11. From the dolly zoom we are brought to a wide shot were
Neil captures Sarah running away from the lights that
started turning off behind her that is contrasted to
complete darkness. This showed to keep the theme of
Sarah being on her own isolated as she has been left with
nothing from the death of her husband and daughter, she
is shown to be running at we expect she is trying to get
away from this feeling to find something real as she looks
like she is dreaming.
This shot expresses loneliness physically and metaphorically watching the darkness closing in on her. The camera turns
around to show Sarah running away from the darkness quickly catches up to her as she runs.
Before we see the last light close on Sarah for complete darkness we see Sarah run into her close friend Beth’s arms
shown drastically, we see that she is in complete devastation as she grab holds of Beth as she cries. This again is a is a
wide shot were we see a complete change to the filter looking back to normal with no greens, here we see the white
being quite powerful from the change where this would mean the appearance of Beth was where Sarah woke up
from this dreaminess feeling. With this shot we are able to see Sarah’s break down of emotion. From analysis we would
see Sarah to be quite disturbed, having realised what had happened we are watching her running in her hospital
clothes where her eyes are kind of blacked out, this made the audience to keep a look out of her as throughout the
film she witnesses strange occurrences.

12. ENTERING THE CAVE
In this scene we see all the women enter the cave with a little disruption as the last person coming
down the rope came down at a unsafe speed shocking the audience. With them entering a cave
this scene shows tat the women are purely isolated. This scene shows a little light for the people to
show what the cave is like, with general knowledge a cave would seem really scary to the ordinary
which would be the majority of the audience as it is deep underground that’s nothing but pure
darkness, if you get injured you would be in a serious amount of trouble as in the scenes that came
up that’s exactly what happened.

13. THE LEG INJURY
In the featured scenes we see Holly fall through a whole in the cave failed to be saved by her friend. She ends up
falling through this whole that turned out to be quite deep where Holly ends up breaking her leg with a clear snap.
Shown above this is a mid shot of when Holly first see’s her own leg bone being snapped as a splint. For us this is also
the first time we see the damage caused to Holly as well as the sort of environment she is in, we are able to see that
it is dark and damp where we clearly see that she is in the worst possible place to be when breaking her leg.
This is a disruption as being the audience we see the horrific/scrutinizing pain that is caused to Holly, the impact shot
put us in the position to process the amount of pain and panic she must be in with the environment she is in.

14. We are then given a extreme close up on the break of the bone giving a more intense
view of the damage caused. We see the bone sticking out of her leg with blood on it,
the break of the bone is given a sharp shape so this also would be playing with emotion
saying how sharp the pain is, this is a close up on how bad the situation is.

15. It then follows on to give a mid of Holly laying down on the floor uncomfortably in pain,
this shot allows us to see her reactions from her discovering the trouble she it going to
be in and the trouble she is going to have throughout this journey through the cave. We
are able to watch Holly scream for help in excruciating pain being at the bottom of the
whole, she looks up to see if she can still see her friends at the top. The only light here
given is from her torch so the shot kind of seems a bit dark but obviously with props she
has been given a little more light so we are aware of what's happening.

16. Here with the shot on top we are given various close ups on Holly’s friends faces showing us their facial expressions to
be serious as they are all trying to help Holly as quick as possible as they all come down the whole to discover how
serious of a situation they are in on making sure Holly is able to make it through the cave. Neil Marshal may have
done this in a way to be foreshadowing of what is to come later on in the film, with Holly breaking her leg we are
given to believe they are in a bigger amount of trouble trying to get out alive. We are not given fast paced shot
here, they have been filmed at normal speed but the way it has been filmed the women are all working at a fast
pace getting her back to recovery as soon as possible.
Finally we have the close up on Holly’s face to the reaction of her friend saying that she need to bone to be pushed
back into place. We are given a clear view showing Holly’s shock and seeing that she accepted her friends to push
the bone back in. The way this has been shot is to draw us into her eyes were we can see fear, blood and grases. We
are given a more deeper contrast on what is about to come through the film, this would be more dangerous
challenges.