The establishing shot is the close up of a ‘No trespassing’
sign, this portrays enigma code as it leaves the audience in suspense to why there
is no trespassing allowed. The camera then slowly moves upwards which also
creates enigma code. There is also a long shot after this which shows the silhouette
of a castle in the far background which connotes darkness and evil. A medium
shot is used which showed a window of the castle that blacked out as if the
lights went out and then turned back on again. This tells us there is somebody
in that room, however we want to find out who it is. The actor in that scene is
holding a snow globe which was first shown zoomed into (extreme close up) then
the camera zoomed out of it showing what it was. This tells us it has some
significance to the narrative. There was a low angle shot used when the snow
globe has fallen out of the man’s hand and rolls downwards and then cracks on
the camera screen. The woman’s reflection is then seen in the broken glass
which is a way cinematography creates affect as the scenes are shown in
different ways. A medium/close up was used to show the man had died because the
woman was covering his face and this showed clearly what was going on. The last
bit of the scene shows low key lighting as it dims away to show the scene is
over.
The cinematography helps create meaning because the way the camera moves could show someone's point of view and how the actor is viewing things in the scene.
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