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Friday, 9 December 2011

Saw 2- Opening Analysis

Saw 2 (2005) Director: Darren Lynn Bousman

It starts off by showing the ident for “Twisted Pictures” It then shows another ident for the same company although this time it is in text rather than the animation. This time it say’s “Twisted Pictures Presents”. This is on a dark background with white, san serif font.

It fades to a black screen and a lightbulb appears, it seems to have a faint green light around it and is flickering on, this connotes a heart beating. It then fades to another black screen where you can hear a man breathing heavily, this builds tension and makes the person think a killing may happen soon. Over the top of the man breather you then see the light appear again which is flickering.  The title “Film by Darren Lynn Bousman”, you again see the light and hear the breathing.

The next shot is a panning shot which shows a silver tray and it pans to the other side revealing another light. This is a point of view, of him looking round although you don’t know that yet. You see a hand grab a the mirror and he swings it round, from the view of the mirror you only see half of his face, the other half is cut of the screen although you can see a bloody eye, he starts panicking and you see a metal structure around his neck. The person is male with dark hair and in his early 20s.

A quick zoom out occurs; this turns into an extreme long shot showing the room and the person is centred in the frame, he is sitting in a chair in a structure. It then zooms in quickly to a high angled shot; this makes the person look weak and inferior, while doing this he is screaming for someone to help him.

A static noise comes on, sounding from a television, he panics and jumps out the seat when he turns round the television turns on and jigsaw gives him the instructions to escape. He tries to pull the bear trap off while being given the instructions. On top of the television are a set of pictures these quickly flash into the screen and then cut back to jigsaw and the male screaming. The pictures are an x ray of what he has inside his eye.

After being given the instructions it shows a close up of a toolbox on the floor, which the male rushes to, he gets a tool out and puts it close to his eye, as he tries to put it in he stops and doesn’t want to do it to himself, the timer starts and there is a lot of fast editing cutting between his eye and the clock. When the puts the tool close to his eye, you never see this as it cuts to a different angle of his face. This is used to avoid having to use special effects make up. As the timer counts down from 30 seconds and ends the bear trap closes and the male falls to the floor dead, he is laid on his side and blood flows out of the cage to show he is not alive.

1 comment:

DB said...

think carefully about the denotation - you're focussing a little too much on the narrative here
eg: you simply write about 'the room'; the details of this are potentially key for setting the mood, and perhaps signifying the genre, with many other possible connotations embedded in various signifiers
anytime you see something you think you might use yourself, note this
also: try to use screenshots + provide some relevant hyperlinks, maybe including the scene from youtube (or a trailer) embedded