•I want the opening two minutes of my film to have non-diegetic sounds, I want it tohave music in the background and also the main characters talking through out theopening scene who sets the setting

•Furthermore i have decided to create my first two minutes of my film on a book

Twilight

The film I chose to look at is twilight, I want to look at it in to more detail as my finalfilm as I think the opening is very effective on the audience by the way it uses non-diagetic sound in the way i want to, and it has also adapted it from a well knownbook.

ABOUT TWILIGHTTwilight was directed by Catherine Hardwicke and written by Melissa Rosenberg. Itfocuses on the development of a personal relationship between human teenager andvampire and the subsequent efforts of Edward and his family to keep Bella safe from aseparate group of hostile vampires.The film was released theatrically starting on November 21, 2008. It grossed $35.7million on its opening day,[and has come to gross $408.9 million worldwide. The DVDwas released on March 21, 2009 and grossed an additional $181 million from sales.

SETTING AND CHARACTERS

SETTING

We can tell by watching the opening two minutes of the film Twilight that the genre ofthe film is mysterious as its extremely dark and with no characters shown in the firstminute. The girl talking, we consider to be the main character who is talking about herdeath as we are watching a small animal run through a forest, makes us feel that thisfilm could be set around a forest.

CHARACTERS

We don’t seethe girl who is talking un till about a minute in to the film, and still then she is talking about the negative things in her life, which’s gives us as the audience the impression that she’s a shy girl who keeps herself to herself and isn't’ interested in a lot of things most teenagers in America of that age would be in to.

SOUND AND MUSIC

NON-DIEGETIC

• The starting of the film uses quick sounds as we watch a small animal run through the forest, the sounds create us to feel as though the animal is in danger and as the sounds get quicker it cause us to feel more emotion for the animal as we know that its getting closer to being killed. They use this effect to create the audience to have the same emotion as the animal

• It also has a girl narrating and setting the first two minutes of the film, the way she talks and what she talks about it very mysterious and fantasy, this creates us as the audience to work out the genre of the film

FONTS AND CREDITS

In the opening scenes of the film twilight, when watching the first two minutes there are no credits at all. I think this is because they want the audience to be completely engaged and listening to what the girl is saying. This make its more dramatic and connects with the audience more through the opening of it.

CAMERA ANGLES

Establishment Shot –Most films have anestablishment shot at thestart of all films to show thesetting which give theaudience an idea about thefilm and what its like.

Close Up Shot –The close up shot of her faceshows the emotion thatshe’s going through. WithBella, the audiences thinkshe’s sad and shy from theclose up’s it shows of her atthe start of the film

MISE-EN-SCENE

Lighting – The lighting is natural and by this we can tell that the film is meant to be realistic and professional. Its also looks like its been filmed and edited so its more of a dark film, which shows us as an audience the genre.

Props – We don’t see many props in the first two minutes of the film, this shows that the genre of the film could be a mystery/fantasy film and they dont’ want to give to much away about the genre.

Costumes – The costumes that the characters are wearing that we see the in this two minutes are just normal clothes showing us that there just average people.