Breakdown of a Media Text

Breakdown of a Media Text
Shot	Start time	Denotation	Connotation/Notes
1	0	Bat House Films ident with spooky sound ident	The signifier of the company who produced the film and who is the conglomerate
2	5	Broken Elephant Productions ident	The signifier of the company who distributed the film
3	7	Red gothic serif lettering fading out as the music begins	An intertextual reference to Haloween with the non diagetic music signifying horror but remaining polysemic
4	27	Music of birds cheaping	Signifies that this is the diagetic sound and the preffered reading that it is set during a day although the polysemy create narrative enigma
1	31	Low angle shot of trees as we track up to them shaekey camera with blue filter	This is a POV shot, we are in a strange dreamlike state and there is a feeling of vulnerability
2	35	Long shot of  a blonde busty girl in a short skirt and jacket walking up the stairs	The POV shot of before was her view. She is the protagonist. It is cold as shown by the use of the jacket. She isn’t a virgin and therefore as a code and convention of other horror films she will be the victim.
3	38	Long shot her walking to centre of the frame she picks up the phone in the setting of a walking path of a forest.	She is vulnerable. She has a relationship with the person she is speaking to on the phone.
4	41	Behind the tree medium shot of the protagonist on the phone saying “where are you”	Someone is watching anchoring that she is wearing a short skirt and that she is about to meet the person she is on the phone to perhaps the person watching is the person she is on the phone to.
5	41	Same long shot as shot three of her in the phone conversation	That she is stood alone and the tension is building
6	47	Long angle shot of her on the phone with leaves in the foreground	Leaving it polysemic but signifying she may be powerfull and appealing to the male gaze by looking up the skirt. The entity watching her is all seeing therefore all powerfull
7	50	Closer behind the tree medium long shot of her ending the conversation	The person watching her is approaching
8	52	High canted angle almost aerial shot of her walking through the forrest with a tree trunk to the left of the frame.	She is powerless. We are seeing the POV of a bird or the person watching her is hiding from her.
9	57	Medium shot of a ginger male turned away from the camera with a black jacket on in the forest	He is the person who she was talking to on the phone and therefore has a relationship with the protagonist. The use of the turning away from camera signifies that this is social realism.
10	1:03	Over the shoulder shot of stalker watching in a leather jacket the girl	The stalker is powerful and evil
11	1:03	Medium long shot her walking up a hill	She is up to something
12	1:05	Tree to left of frame from behind her medium long shot as she walks up hill behind bushes	She is still being watched and followed this signifier is anchored
13	1:07	High angle shot of a hand pulling a bush back with brown leather jacket on	The hand is the stalkers and the girl is about to become victim to the stalker
14	1:10	Over the shoulder medium close up shot of his hand reaching her shoulder as she screams	She is trouble probably dead and the stalker has caught up with her
15	1:10	A flash cut to a high angle shot  of a coffin with a blood red light filter on it	The preffered reading misleads the consumer into thinking this is a flash of the protaganists future
16	1:11	Long shot of him running towards the camera as we hear the diagetic running sound	Pace has picked up and the boy is panicking the disequilibrium has started
17	1:13	A flash cut to a longer take of the shot of the coffin	Pace is increasing and death is approaching
18	1:14	An even flash cut to an even longer take of the shot of the coffin comlimented each time by increasingly louder gashing sounds	Death is coming really close
19	1:14	A cut of the boy running although this time he has come closer to the camera	He is running very fast and there is a greate deal of panic concern and tension
20	1:17	Flash of the coffin again with gashing sound	That the death is coming really close perhaps it does not signify death at all the coffin becomes more polysemic and creates more narrative enigmae the more times it is shown
21	1:18	Close up and wipe cut of the boys feet as he runs past the camera	Panic has set in and the scene is chaotic
22	1:19	Zoom out from extreme close up high angle of a bite on a neck to show an open eyed person not blinking lying on the floor in a brown leather jacket and black hoodie and jeans and trainers	The scene is set in winter the stalker is dead and he is youthfull which signifies he possibly was looking for the girl because he had a relationship with her. The stalker is powerless The use of the blood around the neck signifies he has been killed. The new equilibrium is signified.
23	1:22	Cut with loud gashing sound of the coffin opening with the red light filter still on	The coffin scene is still happening and is a different scene
24	1:25	Medium long shot of body and girl croached over it the boy comes up and asks her “Whats wrong” he touches her on the shoulder and she turns round to reveal she has fangs, blood around her mouth and red eyes	Signifies that she did the murder and she is powerfull breaking the conventions and stereaoypes to shock the audience.
25	1:28	Blue filter no longer exists instead a red filter is on the shot tilts down to show the coffin in a high angle  medium shot of the coffin	The previous sequence was a dream and we have entered reality although it is strange
26	1:32	Close up shot of her sitting up and gasping with red eyes fangs and a pale face still in the same clothes she was before	That it was all a nightmare and it is now over although she is still a vampire
27	1:36	High angle shot as she of her looking at the area around her and gasping	The revelation by her that she is a vampire and there is some truth to her dream and the panic by her that she could have murdrered someone
28	1:37	Titles in the gothic serif red font the get what appears to be speared as the drip with blood and a gashing sound is once again heard they then flicker and fade out	The movie is about vampires, death and the “mistake” is her killing the stalker and not telling her boyfriend that she was a vampire. Therefore the film is about her dealing with becoming a vampire
29	1:41	Extreme close up of her red eyes and bloody pale face without blue filter	Anchorage the murder was real and a polysemic ending to the opening sequence to draw the audience into the rest of the film by creating narrative enigma. Questions are raised as to whether the girl is pleading for help or just pure evil as shown by the red.