Here is the film opening of Silent Hill a 2006 horror film, directed by Christophe Gans.



Here are some screen shots from the video clip above in order to show some examples of different camera shots, movements and angles:

This camera shot is at a low angle and from the video clip above you can see that at this point the camera slowly pans from the left of the room to the right. This creates an uneasy atmosphere as suddenly the viewer is made to feel very small and perhaps intimidated by the room which has been made to look larger.

Here is an example of an extreme close up. The camera is still, allowing the viewer to read the words (likely to be important to the plot of the film). The words suggest murder which is appropriate to the genre of the film, the viewer here is perhaps made to feel like a detective, trying to solve the mystery. This draws the viewer in, already making them feel involved.

In this shot there seems to be a sephia effect, perhaps to create the feel that it is an old photograph, maybe a clue in solving the mystery.

This is a wide shot sometimes known as a long shot. It shows an entire area perhaps again giving the viewer clues as to what may happen later on in the film.

This is another example of an extreme close up (a much tighter close up in which you can see more detail) and the camera is also at eye level. At this point in the film it seems to look like an old video clip from the past and the editors have done this by giving it a flickering effect (you may be able to see some of the flickering black lines in the screen shot).

This is a two shot however it is also selective focus as the woman in the background is blurry whilst the young girl infront is in focus. This seems to seperate the characters and create a shallow depth field.

This is a wide shot with a black and white effect. Not much of the opening is in black and white so this particular shot stands out to the viewer. The camera movement slowly pans from left to right to give the viewer a better look on the area perhaps because it is significant later on in the film.

Here is a power point presentation analysing the film opening of Jaws. It will hopefully help guide me for when I have to analyse in this way

Jaws Shot By Shot - Part 1

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