The document summarizes the mise-en-scene, camerawork, sound, and editing techniques used in the opening sequences of two drama movies: - For "My Sister's Keeper", the opening uses bright colors, family photos and videos, and montages of small clips to set the scene and establish the family drama. Close-up, medium, and long shots are used to show emotions, actions, and environment. Slow music and voices establish the tone. - "Shawshank Redemption" uses engraved titles and images to emphasize the setting, and black and white with strategic colors to dramatize the storyline. Close-ups and tilts are used with an emphasis on editing over camera

1. RESEARCH TASK 2
Gabriela Miteva

2. Movie 1 – “My sister’s keeper”

3. MISE-EN-SCENE
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Bright colors
Sea or ocean, representing
Warm clothes
Mirrors
Old Photos
Old videos
Smiles
Family
Laughing
Usually, drama movies include life
story and at the opening
sequence, there are represented
different objects, which refer to
the idea of the movie. Moreover,
sometimes there are photos or
movies, which tell the story of the
characters before what we are
going to see In the movie.

4. CAMERAWORK
• Close-up shots
• Medium shots
• Long shots
Usually, drama movies include this type
of shots, because in this way the
audience can see character’s
emotions (close-up shots), their
behaviour and movements with some
detailes (medium shots) and the
environment, in which they are
presented (long shots).

5. SOUND
• Slow music
• Laughing
• Voice
Usually, drama movies include slow
music at the opening sequence, which
influences dramatically on the
audience. Moreover, the audience
can often see movies, which start with
a voice of one of the key
characters, telling their story, expressing
their feelings or even saying their
secrets.

6. EDITING
In this opening sequence, there is lots of montage of small
movie with different quality, which shows that they are
memories or family old movies. There are scenes, where almost
nothing is clear to be seen, which emphasises the dramatic
unsureness of the characters. Moreover, during the
voice, which is telling the story, the scenes are moving sensible
and there are parts, which even describes visually about
processes, for which the audience is told.

7. Movie 2 – “Shawshank Redemption”

8. MISE-EN-SCENE
• Engraved titles and images, which emphasised the place where the
action is going to be
• Black and white. Colors emphasised the dramatic storyline.
• Wall
• There is £ in the title of “Shawshank”, which represents that money are
a factor in the movie and it is one of the themes

9. CAMERAWORK
• Close-up
• Tilt
• Not much camerawork, based on editing

10. SOUND
• Dramatic
• Opera
• Sad
• Slow

11. EDITING
The idea of this opening sequences is to
present the characters via symbolic way,
based on the story of the movie. The beginning
of the movie doesn’t show anything from the
prop.