Wednesday, 23 April 2014

Purpose of the opening of a film- ATONEMENT

the extracts begins with the sound of birds accompanied with the sound of the preparation of a type writer which then types the words ATONEMENT. The fist shot used is of a closeup shot of a house which you assume is a real house however the use of a tracking shot reveals the house to be a  doll house , which is later revealed to be a replication of the house the character Birony lives in . The dolly shot of the toy animals is used to suggest that the room belongs to a child however the movement of the camera from low angle shot to a mid shot reveals a teenage girl who tries to take on the role of an adult which is emphasised by the way that she interacts with the help , Robbie , and her sister and her determination to find her mother.



The shot of her trying to find her mother is accompanied with the use of non-diagetic sound , the typewriter , the piano and diagetic sound  the maid folding the sheets and the sounds of her hurried footsteps which speeds up the opening of the film . However when she stops to talk to Robbie the pace of the music slows down and is resumed when she continues to search for her mother and abruptly ends when her mother describes her play as "stupendous!" which suggests that Birony values the opinion of her mother.


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