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NINE FRAME STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
By Claudia Miguel
In the first frame, the shot is in fact of a family with a little girl circled in red. This
connotes to the views that there girl has a significant role in the narrative of the
story. This particular girl’s NVC stand out compared to the rest of her family
members. Her NVC connote unhappiness as she has her arms crossed and is
frowning unlike the rest of her family who are all happy and smiling, this particular
feature makes her stand out from the rest of her family. In addition, this shot does in
fact introduce both the setting and the narrative to the audience, giving them an
insight of how things were before, equilibrium.
NINE FRAME STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
In the second frame, the audience are shown the house that the new family is
in fact moving into which can be identified thought the props of the
moving van and boxes. This shot in fact connotes a sense of new starts and
beginning to the views, this is because a new family is moving into a new
house, which according to the female voice over on the trailer, which appears
to be a new reporter, was previously the home of a family which there murder took place in. This again
introduces the setting for the audience, however this time the trailer shows
aspects of previous events.
NINE FRAME STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
In this third frame, we come across the most significant shot in the trailer in my
opinion. The frame is of a black box alone, which is located in an empty attic. This
connotes to the audience that something is about to be found and in turn changed.
At this specific the non-diegetic sound has stopped to show that something is about
to happen and that this is the tuning point in both the trailer and at this point in the
film and empathizes on the seriousness of this point. The low key lighting also
connotes that something bad is in the attic and as the box is the only thing
there, it must be the box. However, in contrast the natural lighting that makes it
was into the frame also highlights the significance of the box.
NINE FRAME STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
The forth frame I have chosen, is one that is a shocking quick cut and wide
shot of what appears to be dangling legs, as people are in fact being hanged from
a tree. This particular shot only shows half of the family’s body dangling from
the waist/hip down. Along with the dramatic quick cut the sound effect of screams that is used is also dramatic.
The sound effect causes fear among the audience causing them to be shocked
and at unease. At this specific time the audience start to link back to the family they saw at the beginning of the trailer,
with the family that used to live at the house that the new family have just
moved into. The audience of the trailer may also start to question who it is that
murder the family that is seen at the start of the trailer in such a ghastly way.
NINE FRAME STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
The fifth frame of the trailer I have chosen, is a high angle shot/birds eye view of someone or something that is
unknown and walking under water in a swimming pool. The use of a high angle
shot/birds eye view usually portrays something/someone to look small and be
inferior. However in this case is does in fact to the exact opposite, it in fact
highlight the characters significant art of the narrative and its power. Due to the lack of lighting and the use of low key
lighting, its seems that the object in the pool is a dark figure wearing black with pale white skin which is not commonly
found in humans. This in one way connotes that the character is
supernatural as it is walking underwater. The NVC of this character makes him look
malicious and therefore feared by the audience.
NINE FRAME STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
The next frame I have chosen, is a wide shot of the family’s garden outside of the
house, where we find the evil character. The sound effect that is used at this point is again another scream, causing the view to jump and again create fear among the
audience. At this point of the trailer the evil entity appears amongst the bushes and
the disappears straight away. This does in fact reveal to the audience that the evil character isn’t human as not only is he
able to walk under water, but also has the ability to appear and disappear quickly. In addition to the voiceover, we are told that
the character can move through image, which is what happened here in this shot.
The main character of the film (protagonist) has a similar picture to the frame that we see here and places it in front of the window, then takes it away,
which is when the evil entity appears.
NINE FRAME STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
The next frame I have chosen for frame number 7 is the main antagonist of the film siting beside his laptop. The frame captures the movement, which is being
zoomed in onto he character that is in the picture on the laptop. This again
creates both fear and tension amongst the audience. This is because they
realize how serious that situation that the antagonist is being faced with is. The NVC of the antagonist suggests
again that something bad is happening or about to happen, this is due to his facial gestures and also the way that
the main protagonist due to the smug face on is face.
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NINE FRAME STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
The next frame I have chosen is a quick shot and close up that presents
the fact of the protagonist. This is in fact from the view of the main
character, the antagonist. By the look of this shot, the audience can clearly
establish that this is the character that can be seen in some of the frames
previously mentioned. The audience can see that the character is evil as
both its mouth and eyes are nonexistent, which again connotes that
he is not human and therefore supernatural. This again creates fear
amongst the audience as he does not look ‘normal’. There is further suspense
created by the silence leading up to this particular shot, which builds up the scare amongst the audience as the evil
character has in fact appear unexpectedly.
This final shot of this horror trailer I have chosen to use is the titles of the
film ‘Sinister’ which therefore allows the audience of recognize the film when it
is released. The title represents the overall film. It is shown on a grey to
white gradient and cracked wall effect background, with the title ‘Sinister’ in slim smudged font. The color scheme
used correlates with the theme and genre of the film.
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