1. Two Minute Analysis: Friday the
13th (1980)
Friday the 13th is an American horror film
about a killer going around killing camp
counsellors who are trying to reopen a
summer camp at which a child once drowned
at.

2. Mise En Scene
Actors/Costume/Makeup Location/Setting
Woman in her early 20’s. In a dark green 4x4 jeep going along a concrete road
Brown, medium length curly hair. surrounded by a forest.
Multi-coloured chequered shirt with orange top on The bit of forest where the woman jumps out of the
underneath. car is not far from where she said they should of
Light blue, denim jeans. turned off .
Orange jumper tied around her waist. It is quiet in the forest.
Blue ‘Nike’ trainers with a yellow tick.
Hardly wearing makeup but has dirt on her face and
jeans when running through the woods.
The man chasing her is wearing black trousers and
brown boots.
He is also wearing a chequered shirt but his is
shades of red.
He slits the woman’s throat with a knife and we see
the slit in her neck and blood pouring out – fake
blood and makeup.
Props Lighting/Colour
Dark Green 4x4 Jeep Car. Natural lighting – daytime.
Silver mailbox. Slightly darker in forest because of trees blocking
Knife. the sunlight.

3. Camera Movement, Shots and Angles
Camera Movement
Camera pans as car travels speedily down the road.
Handheld movement in car.
Another pan of car down road, but from inside forest.
More handheld movement in the car – from driver’s pov.
Slight pan on woman getting up after jumping out of car.
Handheld motion of pov of driver chasing after woman.
Handheld track of woman.
Tilt up to follow woman slowing getting up for the second time.
Camera Shots
Establishing shot shown through a pan right to left.
Mid shot of woman in passenger seat of car.
Another establishing shot through a pan right to left.
Back to mid shot of woman in passenger seat of car.
Mid-long shot of woman jumping out of car to ground.
Long shot of woman starting to run into forest.
Close up of driver’s legs/shoes.
Mid shot into close up of women when she is looking around.
Mid shot of woman’s back when she is on the ground.
Close up of her face when being attacked by driver with knife.
Camera Angles
High angles every time the woman is on the ground.
Low angle when the woman searching around.

4. Sound & Editing
Sound Editing
Synchronous, parallel car engine sound as it drives Cuts from establishing pan to mid shot woman in
past in establishing pan. car then cuts back to another establishing pan back
to mid shot of woman in car.
Between the woman’s dialogue there is quick bits of
non-diegetic, tense orchestral music. The music gets Backward eye line match – a silver post box then a
more regular and has horns playing an accented shot of character looking back out of window.
deranged note.
Several cuts in the forest to keep track of woman
After the woman jumps out the car there is a car running through.
screech to show the car has halted to a stop. This
would be non-diegetic as it is synchronous. Cut to driver’s feet then back to woman running
away.
The tense orchestral music gets deeper the closer
the killer is then stops for a few seconds until the All the cuts show continuity in the scene.
woman falls over at the killers feet.
Slashing sound effects are used in the music but not
diegetically.

5. Analysis
The scene openings with an establishing pan of a dark green 4x4 jeep speeding down a concrete road,
surrounded by a dark green forest. This shot allows the audience to note that the first bit of this film could be
set in a forest environment away from a busy city. The establishing pan cuts to a mid-shot of a female in her
early twenties in the passenger seat of the car. The camera has a hand held movement as it is suppose to
represent the point of view of the driver who we have not seen yet. The female character has mid length
brown, curly hair and is dressed in a multi-coloured chequered shirt and denim jeans. We wouldn’t see her as
vulnerable as the clothes she is wearing could suggest she is practical whereas a vulnerable person may be
wearing really expensive, fashionable clothes and wear a lot of make-up. As soon as the female states to the
driver, who we would assume are friends by the way the female looks happy and chatty, that he has gone past
the place they were meant to go – a sharp, intense non-diegetic orchestral chord strikes which shows that the
driver has purposely drove past the destination. The music becomes more constant as the scene goes on.
There is another establishing pan from right to left of the jeep driving down the road. The woman decides that
the driver is not trust as he has not said anything and is driving fast. We then get a mid-long shot from outside
the car of the woman jumping out. The next thing we hear is a synchronous sound of the jeep halting to a
stop. There is a hand held point of view of the driver driving back towards where the woman jumped out.
There is a quick pan of the woman as she gets up which then cuts into a long shot of her running into the
forest. The lighting is natural in the forest and it is daytime so we can easily see the woman running through
the forest. The tense, orchestral music gets deeper as she slows down which indicates the driver is going to
catch up with her but a few seconds later the music stops. A low of shot of the woman looking around to spot
the driver make it more tense as the audience cannot see behind or around her. The woman runs a little bit
more but trips over at the drivers feet in which the music strikes back in. The high angle looking down at the
woman also shows a close up of her face in which she is looking terrified. She slowly backs up against a tree
begging for the driver not to hurt her but we see him raise the knife to her throat. We don’t hear a diegetic
slashing sound but we hear slashing sounds within the non-diegetic music. We actually don’t see her throat
being cut directly but the see a close up of her face and neck, which her neck is pouring out with blood.