Video essay on insomnia (By Des)
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Editing – fade in and out (like blood or ink)
❖ Fading title - creates mystery towards audience ❖ Emphasises the look of ink stains or blood, which creates a theme❖ The plain white background and black title contrast against each
other making the title bold and fully focused on
2. Blood – Extreme Close Up of blood
❖ Main Title - white blocked letters to stand out in front of background
❖ Background picture (Red) - to emphasis blood. Gives the audience a glimpse of the thriller genre. Blood stands out in contrast to colour.
❖ Zooming in effects attracts the audience's focus❖ Rope looking affect in the background ❖ Title music - gloomy music with no lyrics but instruments playing in
the background. Creates mystifying sounds also the music volume increases & decreases gradually.
❖ Death ❖ Fear of the unknown
3 - Setting
❖ Opening - birds eye (shot angle) of snow white mountains in the middle of no where creates a sense of isolation and emptiness.
❖ Flying aircraft over the mountains shows mystery. (High long shot) of aircraft
❖ White blocked letters of character names in front of mountains to attract attention.
❖ Setting - sparse no humans, black & white.
4 – Over the shoulder shot - mirror
❖ Rubbing of blood gives the audience an idea of why the character is doing it.
❖ Shot type - over the shoulder angle creates a mysterious atmosphere because the audience is unable to identify the unknown characters face.
❖ Setting - small bedroom with old furniture & cutlery on desk.
5 – Extreme Close Up – characterisation
❖ Extreme angles close up of eyes displays importance of character. It also presents seriousness of the situation or a given idea that something is almost about to happen.
❖ We are also given clues of this unknown character as we are not given a full presentation of his face and features.
6 – Close Up of props
❖ Symbolic codes - Close up props shows that we are given this type of information to see. The pictures given to us to see shows evidence of a case, meaning there must be an investigation in process of information to be found out about this unknown character on the paper.
❖ Unknown character on the paper looks like a dangerous individual, who has committed a crime.
❖ Character looking at the photos - tells us that he is a detective due to the pictures and information of the unknown character.
7 - Angle shot of props
❖ Symbolic codes - Newspaper (close up shot) for the audience to read information. shows there has been a crime that needs to be investigated.
❖ Newspaper - shows that it is very important as it has been published.
8 – Setting - Going into the fog
❖ Flying long shot of aircraft - creates mysteriousness, isolation due to location being in the middle of no where.
❖ Location - high in the clouds, remoteness and seclusiveness of the aircraft.❖ Fog -represents loneliness