Cinematography research

Woman In Black The film opening starts with few close-up shots of the glass items. The director choose the glass items to signify that the girls are delicate and easy to break. This is then shown by the mediam closed frame shot of the girls jumping out the window near the end of the film opening.

Woman In Black After the close-up shots we get a medium shot of all the three girls playing with the dolls. The medium shot is used to show us how many girls are in the scene and to show the power of the woman in black later on, as she is being able to control all of them three.

Woman In Black Further into the film opening we get to see again a few close-up shots of the delicate glass and medium shots of girls. However after that we get to see a close-up of the girls face. This is used to show their facial expression that they are being happy, but also to get the audience to get to know them.

Woman In Black We then get a long shot of all the girls looking at something we can’t see. This cinematography technique is used to create tension as the characters know more than the audience does. This also makes the audience think who is behind the camera and what girls are looking at. Creating a character for the woman in black as carrying from this scene the girls go to kill them self. Creating the character of woman in black being evil.

Woman In Black Finally we get an extreme close-up of the girls hand trying to open the window. This shows that something bad is about to happen and the director wants us to focus on the most important part, making us guess what is happening somewhere else as we can only see the extreme close-up of the hand.

Woman In Black

In this film opening there is so many cinematography techniques that are used to create tenstion and make the audience think what is going on. This will help me in my production as I know now what shots produce what effects and how to use them correctly.