2. Who is completing what?
Task One Task Two Task Three
Michaela Purpose/ MES Barthes
Conventions
Rianne CAM SAM Sound Propp
Pamela Editing Narrative Todorov
6. Purpose/Conventions.
Purpose Conventions
Why • To make the audience • Child speaking in the
does the feel confused and background.
camera gripped.
keep • Close up of toys and
zooming objects in the room.
in on the
watch?
• Makes the audience
want to continue
watching, builds an • Creates a teaser.
enigma.
7. CAM/SAM
Close Ups Extreme Close Up
This is an extreme close up of a crayon in the
This is a close up shot of the contents of a ‘toy’ box. We can see a hand (presumably
‘toy’ box that is shown at the beginning of a child’s hand) picking up a crayon, but we
the sequence. are kept in suspense as to who the
child/person is.
8. ANGLES
Canted Angles
This is a Canted Angle.
Its there to disorientate the audience.
It is shown from the view of the person colouring in, rather than how the audience sees it.
10. MES
Mes Evidence
Setting
• Possibly child’s bedroom or
playroom
Lighting • Filmed inside, this is evident through the
• Artificial way the room has been set out and the
objects within the sequence.
11. Continued..
Mes Evidence
Characters • None shown in the clip.
Representation
• Bird drawing
represents the
‘mockingbird in the
title of the movie.
12. EDITING
• Continuity editing
• 180 degree rule
• Match on action
• Eye-line matching
• Cross cutting
• Insert shots
• Sound bridging
• Pace
• Time
• Time allocated
• Transition
• Special effect
13. PACE
• The pace of this opening scene is slow.
• This would mean that the child was very calm
• This can also mean that they have used very
minimal number of shots
14. TIME
• The time would be in chronological order
• This was discourse time where the filming to actual
same amount of time in the story time
15. TIME ALLOCATION
• The character or what is presented would stay on
screen for 2 seconds
• In this case it would move on to a different shot
when the child finished drawing curvs till the end of
the page
16. TRANSITIONS
• In this opening sequence the transitions would fade
into a different shot
• It would either fade/dissolve/overlap
There was 2 shots that are
This was faded out from a overlapping
different shot
17. SPECIAL EFFECTS
• There was no special effect as this film was very old
• And it was originally black and white
18. Sound Scape Diegetic
• In these two shots from the scene
you can hear a child
humming/singing to themselves.
Ambient Sound Effects/Foley
• In this shot of the clock, N/A
you can hear it ticking in the
background of the diegesis
and the sound also continues
across more than one cut.
Volume Control Voiceover
• There is no visual image to N/A
indicate the volume increasing
or decreasing, but in this shot
the volume of the
Background music increases
significantly.
19. Non-Diegetic Synchronous
• In the beginning, you • In this shot, you can hear
can hear the sound of the voice of the child still
a piano playing. humming in the
• It is outside the background, as well
diegesis. as the background
music.
Score Music Dialogue
N/A N/A
Mode of Address/Direct Sound perspective
N/A N/A
20. STRUCTURE
• The opening sequence is in linear order
• Which means its in chronological order
• it starts from the beginning till the end and not starts
at the end until the beginning
21. ENIGMAS
• While watched the opening sequence we came up
with a couple of questions that we wanted to find
out…
• Who Is that child?
• What has the child got to do with the film?
22. Barthes Theory.
Barthes theory Evidence
Enigma What role will the mockingbird have?
Why does it have such an important role?
Why is the child playing alone?
Action Why is the child laughing?
Semantic The child is presented as a normal child, laughing,
playing with her toys and drawing.
Symbolic Crayons are symbolic of children’s toys.
Mockingbird drawing is symbolic of the title.
Cultural The toys shown are very outdated and basic, such
as marbles, dusty crayons and an old fashioned
watch, this suggests that the movie was set in an
older time period.
25. DISEQUILIBRIUM
• When the child starts taking the toys from the box
• He would put all the items everywhere.
26. RECOGNITION
• The clock would be a disruption as it means
something and something should be happening
• Or waiting for something to happen
27. ATTEMPT TO REPAIR
• When the child would draw the bird just like the title
• It would repair everything what he done and it
seemed this is what he wanted to draw
28. NEW EQUILIBRIUM
• Is started a new day
• As it has changed the location from the child to
outdoors
