3228-Rewrite-Scene Analysis
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Scene Analysis
Name: Ada
Student Number:3228
The Virgin Suicides
Descriptive analysis:
Duration: 00:24:20-00:27:16
Mise-in-scene: Actress: Cecilia, Lux, Bonnie, Mary and Therese .
Actors: Parkie, Tim, Kevin and Paul
Overview: In this scene, Firstly, you can see the boys are trying to read Cecilia’s diary. Of course they are happened in the boys really life. Then the camera changes to Cecilia, she is reading her own diary, and next moment some of the things happen in this scene are real , some are do not really, they are just Cecilia’s imagination. the boys are trying to collect the souvenirs of the Lisbon girl, they just do not understand why Cecilia suicides. So they are trying to figure out why. Finally they find a diary written by Cecilia. They find out many things are written on the diary. The boys begin to know something about the girls. Even through Just a little thing, they found the imprisonment of being a girl, which made the girls’ mind dreamy.
Stage: in the middle part of this scene tells us some happy moment happened to the girls. The girls are go boating and see whales. This is a simulation of a real place, built by the camera crew. This is a stage which let us know Cecilia is really dreamy, they are boating is really happened in the girls’ life but then they are dancing and laughing in the wild are not really, and they are just imagination.
Colours: in the most part of this movie, they use orange. The color is important . Here are two reasons. Firstly orange means old, means something happens in the old time or memories. You can find out that the movie tells us a story which happened about twenty five years ago. They are memories. So the color are old. Secondly, orange means depressing and tragedy. Of course, this movie is a tragedy, five beautiful young girls are suicide.
Sound and music:
Music play in the scene: There are several pieces of music. Firstly,
when the boy is reading the dairy written by Cecilia, there is no music When the scene changes to the girls, changes to the imagination of the Cecilia , the music comes out and becomes louder and louder . The music is sad, confused, miss and heavy. The music makes the whole scene heavy. The music must be want to let us feel sad about imagination of Cecilia, feel the boys are confused, miss and upset about the girl.
Dialogue: Firstly, a middle-aged man is reading the aside, a middle- aged man reading a story about young girls and boys. For the most part, the story must come from the memories of the middle-aged man. Then the boys are reading Cecilia’s diary one by one. They must be very curious what have written on the diary. Cecilia begin to read. What Cecilia is reading must be what the girls like and what the girls what’s to happen in their short life.
Contrasting areas: when the scene comes to Cecilia is writing something about Lux, we can see Lux is in a daze, which is the foreground of the picture, the background is the wild, but the foreground much more visible than the background. The contrasting areas make us concentrate on Lux not the background.
Character relationships: Cecilia, Lux, Bonnie, Mary and Therese are Lisbon sisters. They are very close.
Parkie, Tim, Kevin and Paul are the boys live around the Lisbon, they also like the Lisbon sisters.
Lux is throwing the leaves of a beautiful flower, she must is thinking something happy, or she have some beautiful and wishful dreams.
Cecilia is writing, she must a sensitive girl, and she love the life because she want to right down all almost all the things happened in her life.
When Parkie is reading, he use him finger point out where he is reading, he must be very interested in what he is reading want to show what he is reading to his friends.
Tim is reading, when he find something about the girls, he put his hand in front of his heart. He must be feel very sorry for what happened to the Cecilia.
Character movement: Characters do not move in the scene or move off the scene.
Editing
Time/Editing Style: most of the duration of the shots are very short, they are two seconds or three seconds. When the scene show us boys are reading Cecilia’s diary , the shots are short, they editor must be want to show us exactly how the boys interested the diary, the boys really want to read the diary so the can’t wait for the reading from their friends. When scene show us the girls, the shot is shot, they editor must be want to show us how happy are they when they are hanging out. Maybe the things are not really happen.
Transition: In this scene, the editor uses many cross-fade. there are two reasons. Firstly, for some shots, they have a connection between two shots. The later shot comes from the diary. The late shot do not really happen in the boys’ life. Secondly, for some shots, the things do not even happen in the girls life , they happened in the girls dream. They are not real.
Cinematography
Shot type: In this scene, they use Extreme Close-up, not only we can see the eye clearly. But also the editor want give prominence to the eyes, a pair of blurred and sad eyes.
they use close-up, of course we can see the girl clear, we find the girl is beautiful, but she is very sad, not suitable with her age.
They use medium shot. The editor do not only want to show us that Cecilia is writing, but also want us concentrate on the background. The girl is writing diary in the wild, it’s a romantic thing. The girl must be very happy. This kind of thing does not happen in Cecilia’s life, but she like it.
Camera angle:
Over the shoulder: so that people could see what happened in front of the shoulder. When Parkie is reading the editor want to show us the other boys are interested in the reading, so the editor use the camera angle-over the shoulder, want to show us what happened in the other boys face.
High angle: so that people could see clearly what have happened under the shoulder. When the shot show us the girls go boating and Lux touch the whales, the high angle can show us what exactly happened to Lux.
Camera movement: In this scene, the camera do not move .
All the shots people could see are what the diary been written, the shots are not real been seen, they are just imagination. So the shots are cut into pieces, just like the memories in pieces.
Depth of field: The sequence is used very well in this scene, sometimes, the whole scene is clear, we can see clear what happened in the scene. Sometimes the scene use blur, the background is blur, because the editor want us concentrate on the foreground.
Deconstructed meaning: All in all, in this scene, the boys are trying to finger out why Cecilia suicides. This scene comes out after Father Moody come to Lisbon’s house. The boys are feel sorry about the suicide of Cecilia , so they try to find out why the young girl suicide. But before this scene, the girl’s parents just do not know why their own girl suicides, and they do nothing. The two scene must be contradistinctive.
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