When breaking down a Dvd cover of a film you must look at three main aspects to fully explore its meaning, these are; Camera, Character and Mise en scene.
Camera- There is a medium shot of the main woman with close up shots of three side characters in the background, they each have a serious expression on their faces. There is a long shot of a person who's facial features are hidden by his hat and the low level of light.
Character- there are 5 characters shown on the cover each very serious looking and all cast in shadow, this could represent doubt or the fact that they are hiding from something.
The image of the unknown person is small and hidden, he is black and red, black which shows that he is hiding in the shadows and red signifies blood or danger. The other main characters are in black and white which could be hiding their personalities in an enigmatic way. The fact that four of the five characters can be seen properly i would say that they were the good people in the film, and the hidden person is the villain.
Mise en Scene- The main colours used are red, white and black, this is important as it gives a tense and serious atmousphere. The white and black colours signify the good and the evil of the characters as they are good people who have done bad before. The title is relatively small in comparison to the rest of the cover, it is enigmatic in the way that we want to know what they did last summer. The slogan is in even smaller writing but is a reference to the title and paints a clearer picture to the audience of what its about. It talks about burying bodies which is possibly what they did last summer. The small parts of the background that is not covered by the images are in black, it blends in well with the shadowded part of the characters faces. The lighting on their faces looks artificial and focused on one side of their face, The hair of each character is away from their faces apart from the main girl which could show that she was the cause of the bad thing last summer.
2 comments:
good effort here zen - your analysis work is improving with practice!
ms b
overall assessment of your blog:
this is a tricky one zen. i think you are finally starting to get the hang of the blog and what to use it for.
you have clearly done lots of work over the half term, but most of it is work that should have been done over the last 6 weeks anyway.
when you write up class notes its a good record of your notes bun tno more than that - it doesn't represent independnent thought or research in any way.
when you take some theory and apply it to a text you've chosen that is different - thats where you will really clock up the marks - just like you have with your extra dvd cover analysis and your disturbia conventions work
but these are the only 2 posts that do this really well.
some more evidence like that would help improve your blog grade,to at least a B (its currently hovering at a high C).
have a look at the main blog posting about this to help you, assuming you want to improve . . .
be quick though, or you'll run out of time
ms b
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