Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Genre signifiers

  • Setting
  • Theme
  • Icons
  • Narrative
  • Characters

Love field

We see an establishing shot of the field first and mysterious/scary  non- diegetic music then the camera leads to a sign blowing making a squeaky noise and we see a close up shot of a black crow which is spooky, all this happens in just 3 shots. We hear the wind being foregrounded which is very spooky and weird becuase it makes the atmosphere dark and dull, the crow symbolises death and the camera tracks across the field whilst we hear the crow chirp in the background. Then as the camera contiues to track, we hear a phone beeping, we see money spilled out on the floor then we hear a crying screaming woman.. we then see a dirty foor shaking and struggling then it suddenly stops, the music stops and we see a bloody hand slam down on the ground. We see an old dirty looking farmer come to realisation of what he has done, the camera goes fast and nervous as the man is running through the field to a car, meanwhile the bird is still chirping loudly and the music is getting faster and faster building up suspense and tension. We hear a very high pitch instrument and a close up of the mans eyes staring intently at the crow. Then we hear violins, and the man has got a blanket out of the car we see the womans foot, him going to cover her as if she is dead but then out of no where we see a baby and the man say 'it's a boy'. Suddenly the whole atmosphere changes from bad to good and the setting gets lighter, everythings happy, the music gets happy and there are happy violind instead of scary. This clip is strange vbecuase we all instantly think that the man is bad becuase of the wy he looks but hes actually a nice, helpful man.

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