Analysis of Silent Hill

The first film i analyzed was Silent Hill. As with all film it starts off with the production company. The film name comes up on a black background, then there is a blank black screen with the sound of a lady shouting someones name. The picture then follows the sound with the lady out side in the dark calling `Sharron'.

The lighting on the ground makes the lady stand out and also makes everything around her darker and scarier.

 



She then picks up a teddy from the floor. This is iconic because it hints that the person she is looking for may be her daughter. This shot makes the clip more creepy because the trees are in the foreground and the lady is scrambling through them, also the natural light from the moon adds to the overall effect.

The camera is on a low angle pointing upwards, this is to show the location of where the lady is and also the teddy is right in the foreground so it is emphasised. The audience can hear the cars above and the echoing of the lady shouting. 

This birds-eye view shot of the lady at the   top of the waterfall is very tense because you don't know if the lady might fall.

Again this shot is very tense because there is some eerie music in the background and the audience are waiting for something to happen because so far we have only seen this lady and no other characters.

Here the lady has just seen her daughter. This is why it is a close-up because we can see her emotion and it makes it stand out even more because the background has been faded.

In the film this image is only shown for a split second, so you only really get a glimpse of her face because it has been lit up and the rest of the shot is very dark, because we only see this image very quickly it makes the audience re-think what they just saw.

The end of the two minutes is the child's mother grabbing her daughter away from the edge of the cliff onto the ground, with the daughter repeatedly screaming silent hill. i think the sign of the cross in the background will signify something later in the film.