Wednesday 12 October 2011



This is the trailer from ‘Shutter Island’. The first clip shown has non-diegetic music that sounds menacing. The clip is of a ship coming forward in the mist, this creates an image of danger and that someone important is coming. At the beginning the clips are edited to fade to black, this makes it jumpy as you don’t know what’s going to come next after the black screen. There is a clip of three of the men walking through the gates to shutter island, it seems important as they are in slow motion and the dialogue is ‘welcome to shutter island’. This indicates that they are here for something very serious and that they are very important characters. Two of the men’s costumes are long brown coats and brown hats; this creates an image of them being detectives. There is a clip in the trailer of an old lady who has blood shot eyes, she doesn’t have much hair, she is quite old, she looks frail, and this creates the image of her having an illness as her pale skin against her blood shot eyes indicates illness. A prop of the woman’s character is handcuffs, this shows that he has just entered into a hospital for the criminally insane. The sound of her whispering ‘shh’ to him shows that she probably has a mental illness as he hasn’t made a sound, with the non-diegetic music stopping shows just how quiet it really is and that she is imagining him making a noise. The dialogue before this moment is ‘we take only the most dangerous and damaged patients’ and by showing her shows just one of the damaged patients, and seeing this women is quite a scary image. DiCaprio is the man actor in this film, one of his pieces of dialogue is ‘its like their scared of something’, he whispers this which creates an eerie effect as they obviously are scared of something but we are unaware of what that is at that moment. There is a clip shown where DiCaprio is asking a woman some questions and she gives him a notepad that has writing in it and at the bottom has the word ‘Run’, to emphasise this they show the word ‘Run’ close up, and the music has a heavy beat when it is close up to that word. This suggests that this is very important and gives them clues. Towards the end the clips get faster together, and shorter, the music tempo also speeds up and makes the climax build up and up and up to the titles being explosive over the screen. Then there’s a silence and a black screen until you see DiCaprio being attacked by a monster from behind him. The camera work for this is that we see him behind bars, and then all of a sudden something appears from behind him very quickly and grabs him.

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