Sunday 7 December 2014

TH Technical Analysis - 'The Vampire Diaries'- Pilot, 2009

Duration
Camera Shot
Mise-en-scene
Sound
13 seconds
Long shot, tracking shot, wide frame.
Fog, trees, forest, iconography of horror on a set location.
Narration, ambience up to a crescendo.
2 seconds
Black screen.
None.
Music; up-beat.
3 seconds
Long shot, high angle, static camera movement.
Car enters top left of shot and exits bottom right, night time.
Music; up-beat, diegetic car noise.
4 seconds
Panning shot at eye level.
Car in foreground driving quite fast.
Music; up-beat, diegetic car noise, sound bridge- dialogue.
5 seconds
Mid shot, two shot, low angle; 45 degrees.
Two figures in shot, shallow focus.
Conversation, diegetic background noise.
2 seconds
Shot reverse shot.
Shallow focus on other person.
Conversation, diegetic.
5 seconds
Shot reverse shot (same as two shots back).
Two figures in shot, shallow focus.
Conversation, diegetic.
2 seconds
Big close up.
Male’s face to show his comment and role in the narrative.
Voice, diegetic.
3 seconds
Long shot, low angle.
Car in distance, fog and forest and road.
Car noise, music; extra-diegetic.
3 seconds
Medium close up.
Two characters in car.
Conversation, diegetic.
1 second
Close up.
Girl screams, viewed from side of her face.
Scream of girl and music in background.
1 second
POV shot from car dashboard to figure in the road.
Figure in centre of the road; centre of shot for focal point.
Tyre screeches.
1 second
Close up of face of man.
Side of man’s face, as he reacts to the figure in the road.
Tyre screeches- extra diegetic.
1 second
POV shot back to car now, same as two shots back.
Figure in road as car hits person and windscreen shatters.
Tyre screeches and figure hitting the glass.
2 seconds
Long shot of the car again from the side, camera in forest.
Figure flying over the car after being hit.
More tyre screeches.
2 seconds
Long shot of car from the front this time, static shot from low angle.
Car in foreground and centre of shot as it loses control after being hit.
Tyre screeches, music has ceased.
2 seconds
Shot reverse shot; same as before but from behind the car to give a different perspective on the situation.
Car in foreground and centre of shot as it loses control after being hit.
Tyre screeches, music has ceased.
6 seconds
Vertical pan down from above the car down to below the eye level of the man.
Shot showing everything from figure lying on floor to car and below man to show his power in what’s just happened.
No sound other than background ambience to build tension.
10 seconds
Panning backwards away from man as he walks towards the lying figure, low angle, long shot.
Man as focal point with car in the first third in background. Figure and man centred exactly in shot and road.
Ambience and man hopes the figure is still alive under his breath; severity of situation.
1 second
Close up.
Man’s hand identify’s figure’s hand and a ring is in focus.
Ambience.
1 second
Medium close up.
Man’s face is only thing in shot, as he looks afraid.
Heavy breathing and ambience.
1 second
Medium close up, over-the-shoulder shot.
Composition consists of man over the figure, but figure suddenly grips the man’s throat.
Sudden sound effects of gripping.
1 second
Figure is at medium-long shot with man as they are both centred in shot.
Figure jumps up with hand on the man’s throat as he gets up at abnormally quick speed.
More SFX as he swooshes upwards.
1 second
Big close up.
Figure’s face is shown for the first time, little of it, but his teeth are vampire-like  as he bites into man’s neck.
Crunching noise, diegetic.
2 seconds
Cut to black screen.
None.
None.
2 seconds
Static shot of woman, long shot.
Point of view behind woman as she looks down road; perspective.
Ambience returns.
1 second
Shot reverse shot.
Same as above but man’s body falls onto car bonnet behind woman.
Smash of body falling onto bonnet of car; diegetic.
2 seconds
Close up.
Gore shot of man’s neck as it has been bitten into and he is clearly dead.
Extra-diegetic scream from woman.
2 seconds
Medium close up.
Woman shown screaming from behind the profile of dead man.
Diegetic scream from woman.
1 second
Tracking shot, low angle.
Shot following the running footsteps of woman down the road.
Ambience crescendos to music as it intensifies and running sound.
2 seconds
Long shot, tracking shot at high pace, POV shot?
Shot from behind woman as she runs down road, getting closer the further she goes.
Heavy breathing and faster paced music.
4 seconds
Shot reverse shot tracking slower, fade to black.
Woman is closer to camera, centred as she is seemingly taken by an invisible entity.
Music crescendos and screams fade out.

Storyboard:(More below...)



This shot opens the scene really  well as the fog denotes something bad awaits.

This POV shot is very effective in unnerving the audience.

This long shot exhibits very effective composition. 
This one, like the above, is composed very well, positioning connotes power in this shot very well.

This shot reveals to the audience the first hint to a vampire, as the title suggests.

This ending shot completes the sequence well, consisting of the scene in which everything just took place as it fades out.

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