2205_scene analysis
Scene Analysis
August 15 2010
The virgin suicide
Sofia Coppola
Montage taken from
00:25:44 & 00:26:52
Character movement:
There are 4 boys sit together and reading a girl’s diary. One is reading, and others listening. This character movement is using a close-up. It means a important clue about girls suicide will be start.
Sound:
Only a boy narrative the diary without music. This is a key to highlight the contents of diary.
Shot size:
It is a close-ups main highlights 4 boys. Because this story talk about the relationship between a group of neighborhood boys and girls.
Main color:
The main color is yellow, it means memories in the past. This color can give audiences a feeling is in the past, and something has happened.
Shot 2: 3 seconds
Character movement:
Cecilia sit in the grassland and writing the diary. This scene reflects girl’s living conditions. Lonely, quiet and cry for freedom. She using diary to illustrated 4 sisters personality in her mind. It lets me know Cecilia is a introvert, lonely girl.
Sound:
It is from a boy to a girl in the narrative description with a sound like sonar it is a mysterious felling. The voice conversion back to girl who is a protagonist.
Shot size:
This is switch the lens from 4 boys to girl extreme. Then a medium shot highlights Cecilia. This is showing us conversion time from now to the past. Boys missing girls, and girls bring them memory.
Main color:
The main color is yellow, it means memories in the past. This is a warm color looks like in the afternoon, the sunshine on the grass,give me quietly felling. Yellow sky, yellow grass, and Cecilia’s white dress also becoming yellow, this scene lets me felled girl’s lonely.
Shot 3: 16 seconds
Character movement:
All the four girls one by one show towards Camera. Dancing, swing, dandelion and unicorn are showing four different characters and young girl’s inner world is colorful, peaceful and hopeful. Once, they were happy. They had native and happy character. This scenes is the movie most beautiful and peaceful one. This is the sharp contrast between this fragment and last plot. Such as the yellow color, bright music and every smiling faces.
Sound:
A cheerful background music and girls monologue, in the end the narrative voice is become a middle-aged. The voice conversion explains time to change, and more clearly illustrates this is just a memory. Happiness with some desolate.
Shot size:
This is switch the lens from 4 girls were used the close-up, medium shot and close-ups. This looks like flash and showing each fragment of memories. Close-up of using more prominent four actress angelic smile and inner desire freedom.
Main color:
The yellow has been throughout this fragment, I feel this color are very well to show that childhood or teenage dream color. It is a real world and an unreal world as well. Yellow is a warm color, using this color make us feel warm and comfortable, inner peace and comfort.
Finally, in this fragment the editing style using lens mode superposition, switch and close-ups. The dialogue showing 3 people’s voice, a boy, a girl and a middle-aged. It is showing us time to change, people to change, and life to change. Although 1 minute fragment, showing lots of information and different shots. Through this segment let me feel the joy and freedom of teenagers, and each girl's inner world.
Hey Tina...you really need to redo this. You need to select a SINGLE one minute long, continuous sequence from the movie, then detail what happens in that...it is not possible to choose two unrelated sequences from different parts of the movie...
Okies...I know there's no Word Count...but I'm just letting you know that this is probably too short to pass...it's only 305 words long. That's definitely too short to do much of a scene analysis...