• Engelsk
  • Uddannelse: STX
  • Karakter: 10 tal
  • Ord: 1537

Indholdsfortegnelse
Shot by shot analysis:
Narrative structure:
Three-act-structure:
Foreshadowing and suspense:
Mine noter:
Type of film
Setting
Characters
Narrator
Theme

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Uddrag
Shot by shot analysis:
Find one or two scenes which are important to back up e.g. your character analysis.

Remember to use still pictures as examples in your analysis (write down the exact time the still picture appears in the film – this is your quote and back up for your analysis).

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Foreshadowing and suspense:
A popular and firmly established feature of the horror genre is the use of foreshadowing, a tool which creates suspense and expectation with the viewers.

Foreshadowing may be a strange look on a character’s face, a strange remark, an odd sound, an insignificant but ill-boding occurrence – really anything that throws the viewer off balance just a little and which suggests that something related but much worse will follow.

A closely related phenomenon is suspense – something which is often created either by withholding information from the viewers (which leaves you uncertain and guessing)

or by giving the viewer information which the characters do not have (which leaves you wanting to warn the characters but, of course, unable to do so).

Foreshadowing and suspense are features so ingrained in the fabric of the genre that directors often play on the expectations and knowledge of the viewers by leaving false clues and establishing foreshadowing indicating one development only to shock the viewers with a different one.

When focusing on this aspect in an analysis of a film, we can ask questions like:
• Are there elements, characters or actions to which our attention is directed in the early phases of the movie? What does the director do which makes us notice these things specifically?

• Do some of these elements return later in the film? If so, are they different? And how is this difference shown?

• Are there situations in which we are given more information than the characters? And which effect does this have?