3514_Scene Analysis
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Scene Analysis
3514_james
The Virgin Suicides, 1999
#Scene 1
Color usage
The main color is blue which illustrates the cold dawn.
We can feel the cold from the ground and air.
Blue is colored every around the shot so it could make a meaning that we dose not know what is the love and happy.
Lighting
In the dawn, it brings blue lights that only trace the specific area from the sun, which is lighting on her sad white face.
Blue color and mixed light with darkness which is evidence obviously to know that it is early morning.
Character movement
Firstly, she just woke up and tries to understand the situation so she looked around everywhere. When she take a taxi, she dose not move anymore. She just gaze at outside from the window to see somewhere then we can find that only her eyes are moving.
#Scene 2
Depth of field
When she wakes up, the shot is focused on her sad face. From the first shot, there is one person who propertied only small part of the shot. She is described small size of character. It means that now she is just the smallest character in the world.
#Scene 3
Her face is totally different before when she enjoy the time with ‘Trip’. She just bites her crown, which she gets from the competition.
There is no happy mood on her face anymore.
Everything is gone. She would think that the world is the end.
Camera movement
Camera is still stopped to focus her doing. It is fixed for the long shot. After that, camera zoomed in her face. When she is in home, camera is fixed again to long shot.
#Scene 4
"We’re suffocating..."
"No. You’re safe, here."
"I can’t breathe in here..."
Sound
All over the sound of the scene is ‘Play ground love’.
‘Play ground love’ music makes calmness and quietness. Each of sounds is well organized to every shot. Hence, background music represent atmosphere over the playground very well. In addition, birds are singing with slow tempo of music that tells us the morning atmosphere as well.
Camera Angle
The first angle is not so high because this angle makes us to check her situation carefully. After that, it is changed to high level to see the entire playground. When she arrive at home, level of camera height is fixed to the normal eye level which makes us to watch every moment briefly that our eyes do not follow anything so we can distinct the happening simply.
Screen graphic/Composition
In the first place, her body is propertied most of the shot. After that she is described the small part of the shot compared to her surroundings. And we can feel the atmosphere of the morning that makes easy understand what the event was. And then we can recognize that she is alone on the playground from the composition of the shot.
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