Sixth Sense; M Night Shyamalan
Opening Scene
- This camera angle is a wide angle shot which is on eye level with the character. This is so that when she is looking through the wine shelf trying to choose one the camera can track her movements by following her eyes.
- The camera moves very fluently with her and therefore this can suggest that nothing has gone wrong yet otherwise the camera could've been slightly jolty or stayed in the same place whilst she moved around it.
- However by having her turned on a profile shot towards the camera this cuts her off from the audience and therefore they don't have personal connection with the character as they can not only not see her eyes but they also cannot see her body language.
- It is being filmed through a gap in the wine rack and therefore this creates a tight frame around the character therefore restricting where she can move in the shot and also restricting the viewer from looking anyy where else.
- There is only diegetic sound in this shot of her moving the bottles around as she searches through them to find the right one. By having such eery silence it helps to accentuate tension and build fear within the viewer as when the camera starts to pan back up you think that there may be someone standing behind her. This therefore conforms with the conventions of a Supernatural Horror as by having such silence it builds the tension and keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat and always expecting something.
- There is also another form of diegetic sound in which she hears something like glass breaking above her and this makes her turn around to look behind her. By not knowing where the sound came from it again builds the tension for the viewer and makes the wonder what that sound was. Also without having established anyone else is in the house you could assume it is a break in or something worse.
- This scene is very simple with editing as it stays in one place before she turns around which is Continuity editing as it is the same scene in the same place but the Camera Angle just changes to a wider shot.
- Mise En Scene
- The scene is extremely dark and this suggests that they have used Low Key lighting in order to light her face and also the light bulb in the background. This conforms to the genre because it makes the room more mysterious and a threat because she is below ground and there are no windows and therefore it is sort of trapping her within not only the scene but also the set. Cellars are typically used in horror movies in order to create tension and fear within the audience as there are a lot of shadowy places in which to hide people.
- She is the dominant of the shot as she is the only person in shot and therefore that makes her the main object in which we look at during the scene as we are only following her actions.
- It is a very stark scene because apart from her and the wine cabinet being the shot there is nothing else really stealing the viewers eye and by making it stark it again conforms to the genre as by having her in the room on her own in a very empty room is creates a lot of tension towards something possibly jumping out.
- The composition both vertical and horizontal and therefore could show that this scene is chopped up into different sections and could therefore imply that something isn't right as both are in the same scene creating divisions.
- She is wearing purple which means Nobility, Exoticism and Wealth due her having a cellar probably filled with quite expensive wines. Her dress also matches the colour of wine.
- She is in the middle of the shot therefore showing her importance in the scene and that she is someone of importance to the viewer.
- Its a shallow depth of field as the light in the background is un focused and therefore it is as though they are confining her within a small space making it hard for her to move around the scene as the camera has made her space smaller.
- She is at personal distance with the audience so although she is at a profile angle and therefore cut off eye contact she is keeping in distance of the audience so that we don't lose that contact completely.
- Fast Film stock on a Telephoto lens.
Camera Angle
- This is a high angle shot in order to reveal the items of clothing on the floor and also the feet of the person that is standing in there. By the fact that there clothes are on the floor it shows that they perhaps don't live there and they are too big to be children's clothing and therefore could mean a delusional intruder.
- The sound is a score of violins in which build up one after another one in order to increase then tension and also to make the viewer afraid of what is going to be revealed inside the bathroom. This builds the tension because the violins are building more and more tension in their strings as well and therefore not only are the audience feeling the tension but the instruments are under tension from playing the notes.
- There is no editing apart from the Continuity editing which is used to show time moving forward.
- Hoever there is the juxtaposition between the black and the white because they are putting something quite dark against a light background.
- The black clothes represent a threat or danger that has entered the home and by the bathroom being a white colour it shows this home is innocent and pure. So by putting the black clothes against the white it brings the threat into the house and it is as though it is spreading through the pureness foreshadowing an event that could change the household.
- There is a lot of Vertical lines in the composition and this suggests strength however this is subverted at the figure does not look strong or stable and therefore he does not pose as much of threat physically however mentally he may be more of a threat. So this strength could suggest a larger power of the mind rather than the body in general.
- Although the whole body isn't in the shot the feet are already the dominant due the fact that the viewer will want to know who this mysterious person is and therefore will focus on the feet and that side of the scene to see who they are when they are revealed.
- Subsidiary Contrast is the clothing as from the feet we go to the clothing to create a profile for this character that we cannot yet see the identity of.
- Moderate density as there is quite a lot of information in which the audience have to take in, in order to piece together the scene and the meaning.
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