2. Film Opening Conventions
• Credits
• Productions logos
• Narrating by Bella (which is the protagonist)
telling about dying and her life.
• Music reflects the genre and the mood.
• Introducing the protagonist
• Set the scene and location
• Blank scene at the start to create suspense at the
audience
3. Mise-en-scene
• Costume= casual, everyday clothing. The protagonist was
wearing blue top and brown cardigan. Blue means
dependable or trustworthy and brown means stability
which reflects on the protagonist because she is
reliable, easy-going and a person that you can trust on.
• Make-up= no make up that has been used to show that
girls can be pretty without make ups on.
• Props= car, cactus
• Setting= at the start it was set in Phoenix, Arizona as it was
said while she was narrating. Then move into another
location which was in the town of Forks, Washington where
her father lives and she moves in there with him.
4. Actors
• Bella Swan = is a teenage girl who falls for Edward and she
will take the risks that could happen bad to her as long as
she is with Edward. She is the protagonist. She is clumsy
and often portrays herself as having low self-esteem and
unable to understand Edward’s love for her.
• Edward = is a vampire, who fall in love with Bella. He is cold
to humans but nice, sweet, kind when he’s with Bella or his
vampire family. He can also read people’s mind from far
away distant.
• Jacob = is a werewolf. He is strong, bad temper but
nice, kind and he transforms into werewolf when he gets
really angry.
5.
6. Editing
• Jump cuts on the first scene where the deer
got chased by someone which creates
conscious effect to the audience.
Lighting
• Natural key lighting to show realism.
• Low key at the first part of the scene which
creates dramatic and moody feeling to the
audience.
7. Camera
• Tilt shot to create a sense of unease in the viewer.
• Mid shot – when it focuses on how the deer has not got a
clue that something might happened bad. It focuses on the
protagonist and her mother’s expression, like the one that
they were hugging. Focuses on how awkward it was for
Bella and her dad to talk while they were on the car.
• Close up shot – when Bella came up, it focuses on her facial
expression which was sad and depressing face.
• Tracking shot when the deer got chased by someone. The
speed was quite fast which creates anticipation.
• Establishing shot – used in different locations so you can
see what it’s like. For example, the village of the
protagonist, the dessert, the bridge in Washington, etc.
8. Sound
Non-diagetic = the slow rhythm and eerie music
at the start means something bad might
happened. Then the music gets deeper and
deeper which creates suspense. And then it
slows down when the protagonist showed up.
After a few minutes they use another music on
the background.
Diagetic = the car engine and the plane
