Nine Frame Structure Analysis - A2 Media

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Nine Frame Structure Analysis

• By Claudia Miguel

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Nine Frame Structure Analysis

• In the first frame, the shot is in fact of a
  family with a little girl circled in red. This
  connotes to the views that there girl has a
  significant role in the narrative of the story.
  This particular girls NVC stand out compared to
  the rest of her family members. Her NVC connote
  unhappiness as she has her arms crossed and is
  frowning unlike the rest of her family who are
  all happy and smiling, this particular feature
  makes her stand out from the rest of her family.
  In addition, this shot does in fact introduce
  both the setting and the narrative to the
  audience, giving them an insight of how things
  were before, equilibrium.

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Nine Frame Structure Analysis

• In the second frame, the audience are shown the
  house that the new family is in fact moving into
  which can be identified thought the props of the
  moving van and boxes. This shot in fact connotes
  a sense of new starts and beginning to the views,
  this is because a new family is moving into a new
  house, which according to the female voice over
  on the trailer, which appears to be a new
  reporter, was previously the home of a family
  which there murder took place in. This again
  introduces the setting for the audience, however
  this time the trailer shows aspects of previous
  events.

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Nine Frame Structure Analysis

• In this third frame, we come across the most
  significant shot in the trailer in my opinion.
  The frame is of a black box alone, which is
  located in an empty attic. This connotes to the
  audience that something is about to be found and
  in turn changed. At this specific the
  non-diegetic sound has stopped to show that
  something is about to happen and that this is the
  tuning point in both the trailer and at this
  point in the film and empathizes on the
  seriousness of this point. The low key lighting
  also connotes that something bad is in the attic
  and as the box is the only thing there, it must
  be the box. However, in contrast the natural
  lighting that makes it was into the frame also
  highlights the significance of the box.

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Nine Frame Structure Analysis

• The forth frame I have chosen, is one that is a
  shocking quick cut and wide shot of what appears
  to be dangling legs, as people are in fact being
  hanged from a tree. This particular shot only
  shows half of the familys body dangling from the
  waist/hip down. Along with the dramatic quick cut
  the sound effect of screams that is used is also
  dramatic. The sound effect causes fear among the
  audience causing them to be shocked and at
  unease. At this specific time the audience start
  to link back to the family they saw at the
  beginning of the trailer, with the family that
  used to live at the house that the new family
  have just moved into. The audience of the trailer
  may also start to question who it is that murder
  the family that is seen at the start of the
  trailer in such a ghastly way.

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Nine Frame Structure Analysis

• The fifth frame of the trailer I have chosen, is
  a high angle shot/birds eye view of someone or
  something that is unknown and walking under water
  in a swimming pool. The use of a high angle
  shot/birds eye view usually portrays
  something/someone to look small and be inferior.
  However in this case is does in fact to the exact
  opposite, it in fact highlight the characters
  significant art of the narrative and its power.
  Due to the lack of lighting and the use of low
  key lighting, its seems that the object in the
  pool is a dark figure wearing black with pale
  white skin which is not commonly found in humans.
  This in one way connotes that the character is
  supernatural as it is walking underwater. The NVC
  of this character makes him look malicious and
  therefore feared by the audience.

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Nine Frame Structure Analysis

• The next frame I have chosen, is a wide shot of
  the familys garden outside of the house, where
  we find the evil character. The sound effect that
  is used at this point is again another scream,
  causing the view to jump and again create fear
  among the audience. At this point of the trailer
  the evil entity appears amongst the bushes and
  the disappears straight away. This does in fact
  reveal to the audience that the evil character
  isnt human as not only is he able to walk under
  water, but also has the ability to appear and
  disappear quickly. In addition to the voiceover,
  we are told that the character can move through
  image, which is what happened here in this shot.
  The main character of the film (protagonist) has
  a similar picture to the frame that we see here
  and places it in front of the window, then takes
  it away, which is when the evil entity appears.

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Nine Frame Structure Analysis

• The next frame I have chosen for frame number 7
  is the main antagonist of the film siting beside
  his laptop. The frame captures the movement,
  which is being zoomed in onto he character that
  is in the picture on the laptop. This again
  creates both fear and tension amongst the
  audience. This is because they realize how
  serious that situation that the antagonist is
  being faced with is. The NVC of the antagonist
  suggests again that something bad is happening or
  about to happen, this is due to his facial
  gestures and also the way that the main
  protagonist due to the smug face on is face.

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Nine Frame Structure Analysis

• The next frame I have chosen is a quick shot and
  close up that presents the fact of the
  protagonist. This is in fact from the view of the
  main character, the antagonist. By the look of
  this shot, the audience can clearly establish
  that this is the character that can be seen in
  some of the frames previously mentioned. The
  audience can see that the character is evil as
  both its mouth and eyes are nonexistent, which
  again connotes that he is not human and therefore
  supernatural. This again creates fear amongst the
  audience as he does not look normal. There is
  further suspense created by the silence leading
  up to this particular shot, which builds up the
  scare amongst the audience as the evil character
  has in fact appear unexpectedly.

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Nine Frame Structure Analysis
This final shot of this horror trailer I have
chosen to use is the titles of the film
Sinister which therefore allows the audience of
recognize the film when it is released. The title
represents the overall film. It is shown on a
grey to white gradient and cracked wall effect
background, with the title Sinister in slim
smudged font. The color scheme used correlates
with the theme and genre of the film.