This document provides summaries for 12 scenes from the movie Spirited Away. The scenes establish Chihiro's reluctance to move to a new town, show her family getting lost in the forest and coming across a mysterious tunnel, her parents pigging out on food in the tunnel before transforming, Chihiro wandering alone into the spirit world, the setting of the spirit world at night, and a boat arriving with spirits landing for the first time.

1. Alexis Davis
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2. Chihiro sulks in the back seat
of her parents’ car while her
family is on its way to a new
home in a new town, and
Camera Movement: Chihiro doesn’t want to move.
Dolly/Tracking, the This opening scene sets the
camera is moving along tone for the movie.
side with the car.

3. Camera Movement:
Dolly/Tracking, the
camera is moving with This scene show the
the car. neighborhood that the
characters are leaving. It also is
the scene that introduces the
title of the film. No
chareacters are in this scene.

4. Sound:
Drastic music begins
to play as the
characters in this
scene begin to
scream, also Tree
branches are
breaking.
This is the scene when things took a
turn for the worse. Chihiro’s father
gets lost while taking a short cut, and
loses control of the car as they drive Camera Angle:
It is a long shot and
further and further in the forest. close up. The scene is
fast moving so the
angles are constantly

5. Sound:
Drastic music gets
louder. Car is hitting
branches and rocks.
Screams get louder.
In this scene the father loses
control of the car but he sees a
tunnel that he realizes the car will
run into so everyone starts to panic
and scream.

6. This scene the characters get
out of the car because there is
a tunnel. The parents discover
that this tunnel is actually an
entrance.

7. In this scene the parents find a
deserted stall piled with food. They
start eating, and soon, they’re both
pigging out. Chihiro refuses to eat
because she has a bad feeling about it
and she wanders away by herself Her
parents kept eating the food.

8. In this scene Chihiro wonders
Camera Angle:
This scene is a long to a bridge, which she doesn’t
shot. It is also know is the spirit world. She is
zooming in and out
and panning back and
fascinated by the building.
forth.

9. In this scene it shows when the
spirit world gets dark. This is
another establishing shot. It is
showing the whole setting of the
spirit world. This is where the
Camera Movement:
majority of the movie will take
This scene is
place. establishing the
setting and it is
panning back and
forth to show the
whole spirit world.
Camera Angle:
This scene is a long
shot. It is also
zooming in and out
and panning back and
forth.

10. Camera Movement:
This scene is
establishing the
setting and it is
panning back and
In this scene the boat is approaching forth.
land. This will be the first time viewer Camera Angle:
will see the spirits and how they come This scene is a long
to land. This is a very important scene shot. It is also
because this is the passage way for zooming in and out
spirits. and panning back and
forth.

11. In this scene Chihiro sees the spirits
leave the boat and she begins to panic.
This scene also shows one of the
spirits she will meet later in the movie
that will befriend her and help her get
back home and save her parents.