2. Knowing
Director: Alex Proyas
Description of scene: Lucinda is a lonely girl who is
disturbed and has a fixation of writing down numbers. She is
also able to hear whispers and voices as she stares at the
sun.
Location: Elementary school Massachusetts, 1959
This scene establishes that the main character has
disturbance of emotional equilibrium or a psychiatric
disorder and that the numbers, the sun, and the voices that
she hears will play an important role in the movie.
3. Knowing
Cinematic Techniques
Zoom out: used to show the location in the opening scene
Score: Frightening or creepy music is used
Sound effects: Soft whispering
Sting: The Closet door is opened and bloody Lucinda is revealed.
4. Close-up: Lucinda’s frightening face is shown in the opening shot of
the movie. (Emotional, not happy)
Extreme Close-up: Lucinda writes a page of seemingly random
numbers which show her obsession. Using this shot more than once
helped to show the important key aspects of the film.
5. Wide shot: Lucinda’s isolation is shown in the wide shot to show that she has
no friends and she is lonely. A location is also established by a reverse zoom.
Extreme close-up: Lucinda’s bloody fingers are shown to show her mental
illness, obsession, and that she is going crazy.
6. Knowing
Opening Credits
Credits are broken up into two parts. The first part only includes the
production company, main actor, and movie title. The movie is dissolved
by clouds which serve to transition into the first shot.
The second part of the credits come after the opening scene. Other actors
are included and the names switch as each shot changes. The director is
last.
The movie title dissolved into clouds to transition to the first shot.
Style: White font, numbers become names, and whispers can be heard.
7. Numbers turned into letters: A connection to Lucinda’s obsession with
writing random letters .
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Conclusion
Opening credits are very unique because of
the numbers that transitions to letters, the
whispering background sounds that connect
with Lucinda’s mind and what she hears, and
the transition into the first shot.
The sound effects stand out .
The zoom out is also very unique.
9. Girl, Interrupted
Director: James Mangold
Description of scene: An 18-years old, Susanna Kaysen is a
girl who has nervous breakdowns and suffers from
depression and lack of motivation is sitting with two other
girl in a dark room. They are very panicked and crying.
Location: Dark, unknown room with bars on the window and
a voiceover was used.
Opening Scene introduces the main characters of the movie,
and shows the movie will most probably be depressing and
dark.
10. Cinematic techniques
Low-key lightening: The room is very dark in the beginning of the movie
which shows that the film will have a dark tone and will probably be sad.
Soundtrack: A slow paced song that seems sad creates a sad and
depressing mood to the scene
Voiceover: The main character speaks through a voiceover
Sound effects: Sirens heard in the background
11. Close up: An actor’s face is shown to emphasize that she is in pain and is
very sad.
Crying with no background music and
Closes her eyes.
Creates a depressed mood.
Eyeline match: Used for a character to introduce more characters and objects
by looking at something and and then the camera shows what she’s looking
at.
12. Opening Credits
The title of the movie is shown first with white font that looks like
handwriting. The opening credits come after the opening scene.
13. Prison Break
Director: Paul Scheuring
Description of scene: Micheal, the main character, commits
a serious crime of armed robbery where he ends up in the
court to go to a high level jail and deals with his brother
inside the jail.
Location: Bank and court room; jail yard in Chicago.
Explanation of scene: This scene establishes Micheal’s plan
of going to jail in order to help his brother escape prison
and clear his name.
This scene establishes the beginning of his plan for a
foundation of the rest of the series
14. Prison Break
Cinematic Techniques
Score: Very quiet , slow-paced, and creates tension and stress which
certainly pulls the audiences’ attention.
Sound effects: gun shots in the bank that were made by the character in
the scene, and tattoo gun. It creates the mood in the scene to stimulate
reality.
Fast pan: He is coming up with a very important plan which shows how
busy his mind is from thinking .
15. Wide Shot: Micheal is standing by himself in his
office, showing that he’s planning and many
thoughts are in his mind which the audience
still don’t know yet and is continuing to watch
in order to find out what will happen next. It
certainly shows his isolation and that he is the
only one coming up with a plan.
Extreme close-up: Newspaper article that are
marked with a red marker show that he is
preparing to do something, marking important
information that he might use.
16. Aerial shot/Establishing shot: Shows a new
location of the prison where his brother was put
and where he now goes.
Establishes where his plan takes place.
Point of view(POV) shot: Micheal is looking at
prisoner who just got stabbed. In his eyes, he
sees that the prison is tougher than he though it
is. He is a little nervous from what he’s seeing in
front of him.
17. Prison Break
Opening Credits
It starts with the actors, producers, and director
lastly. Then, it shows the title of the TV show
“Prison Break”.
They started by going every 2 sec. and switched
over to every 4 sec. when the music changed at
the end. They move very quickly
Style: The font is white and bold with cracks in it.
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Conclusion
Opening credits were moving quickly
Opening scene starts in the middle of a conversation.
Gun shots and other sound effects stand out.
19. Wildflower
Director: Nicholas DiBella
Description of scene: The movie starts off with Chloe Moray,
a college student, painting in a room by herself where she
speaks in a voiceover and introduces herself. She talks about
things that she knows happened doesn’t seem to remember
such as the first time she picked up a brush and tried to
paint. She also talks about how she doesn’t know much
people eve though she has been living there(the city) for her
whole life. The scene also shows her walking in the city by
herself and finds a car running after her and she starts
running, the it hits her. Then she wakes up from the dream.
Location: Hudson Valley in Upstate, NY
Explanation of scene: The scene most importantly shows
how lonely the main character is, and expressing that by the
tone of her voice in the voiceovers, painting and walking in
the city herself.
20. Wildflower
Cinematic Techniques
Sound: The voiceover that he main character make in the beginning of the
movie shows her loneliness.
Score: Tensed sound with a little bit of sadness added is used at the same
time as the voiceover
Sound effects: Crickets sounds
Lighting: Low-key lighting is used in her dream which shows a little bit of
sadness and emptiness.
Pan: walking in the street by herself.
21. Wide Shot: Cloe is walking by herself in the street with
barely anyone in it. This shot emphasizes her
loneliness.
Close-up: The close-up is used to show Cloe’s face
expressions and reactions when she sees the car. She
is very worried.
22. Over the Shoulder: Cloe is painting and the painting shows a girl by herself
which seems to be running in the woods. The voiceover explains how she’s
feeling when she’s drawing and what she’s thinking about. Her painting
seem to emphasize or explain Cloe’s loneliness.
23. Extreme Close-up: The drawings seem to be
Cloe’s, where she fully illustrates her
loneliness bye women crying and are very
sad.
Close-up: Her drawings which explain that
she’s not a happy person.
24. Wildflower
Opening Credits
The credits starts with the production
companies, then after a while, it shows
the directors name. After 2:36 minutes
of the movie, the title shows up. And
after about 20 seconds, the movie
actors are shown. The transitions are
very slow paced which creates same
kind of sad mood.
Style: The font is normal, with all
capital letters, and white.
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Conclusion
Overall, the opening scene is very sad. Techniques that showed this
emotions were the score, the voiceover, close-ups of her gloomy face,
wide shot of her walking by herself, and the low-key lightening.
