2. Mise en scene:
The Mise en scene through out the entire beginning is focused around one girl in the rain it is
on a street and the environment it busy as there is a lot of people moving around her and
rushing in the rain. I find this interesting because it gives the audience a sense of the location
and mood and atmosphere.
Sound:
In the opening The sound is non dietetic through out the opening and fits with what we are
seeing at one point we have the sound building into a minor crescendo which manipulates the
audience because we are expecting the crescendo to happen and we get scared this is also a
genre signifier of thriller so then the crescendo is replaced with the man screaming which is
also effective.
Narrative:
In the opening we have the panning shot of us looking from the bottom of the girls foot to her
head then a full body shot this shows us that she is the main character. We then have some
enigma such as why is she the only one not moving? Why is she not covering herself with a
umbrella?. When we see her face transformation of her changing into almost a monster that
establishes the binary opposition Human vs. Monster.
3. Location and setting:
The location is on street in china
and it is really dull and grey these
colours are key conventions to a
horror/thriller film.
Also this setting is shown through a high angle shot of us looking down upon these
people this is used well as we as the audience can identify who the main character
is through this shot. Through out the beginning we stay in this location.
In the end we than have a high angle shot
panning away showing and establishing
shot of the setting this shows the target
audience that this attack of this creature
was out in the open and this links to the
narrative of human vs. Monster.
4. Representation of character:
The representation of this
character already gives us
the impression that she is
different as everyone is
covering themselves from
the rain and she isn't
moving in the middle of
hubbub.
She is also dressed in black which usually
connotes death also her facial expression has no
emotion and looks kind of glum and lost.
The representation of her shows that
she is not human as the sound of her
voice is different and in human an
then she bites the mans neck.
Opening Resident evil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA7YC88ap5Y
