BREAKDOWN OF A MEDIA TEXT
SHOT START TIME DENOTATION CONNOTATION/NOTES
Long shot/establishing shot Long establishing shot of woodland area. Sets the scene, connotes it is in a secluded area
Medium shot A girl and a boy talking and smoking Connotes the actor and actress are on their own and being watched, youthes as they have their hoods up and smoking.
Low angle-extreme long shot Group of teenagers sat in their campsite. Connoting they are again secluded from society and the outside world due to the long shot and as the shot is looking down on them, they are being watched.”
Close up Shot of beer being opened Connoting they youthes, drinking and rebelling, something bad is going to happen as their state of mind won’t be completley normal.
Long- shot Teenagers having a conversation Connoting that they are youthes as they are drinking and how many of them there are.
Two-shot, longshot Girl and Boy with arms around each other. Connotes they are a couple and sexually active, therefore likely to be killed first and the girl is the ‘scream queen’
Medium shot The couple and a friend having a conversation and drinking alcohol. Then girl and boy walk off. Connotes they are use from the alcohol substance and that the couple are walking off to be sexually active.
Tracking long shot Boy and girl walk off holding hands Connotes they are a couple and are sexually active.
Low angle- extreme long shot-tracking Girl and boy holding hands walking through the trees. Connoting they are a couple, however they are being watched possibly by a killer.
Shot reverse shot- medium shot. Boy offering girl a beer, girl rejects the beer and then the boys reaction is he is humoured by her rejection Connotes they are youthes again from the alcohol substances, the girl is the ‘final gil’ in this text as she is sterotypicaly the most sensible and rejects the alcohol.
Long shot, tracking The couple walk back pulling their trousers up/tops down. Connotes they have been sexually active
Long shot The couple greeting the other girl and boy back at the campsite. Everything is normal again.
Long- shot Shot of the group of teenagers in the group again Again everythings fine they are oblivious to anyone watching them.
Over the shoulder shot – low angle shot The couple recieving and accepting beer from the boy. Emphasises on the youth idea.
Long shot Group generally talking. Connotes they are secluded still, but there is no real vunrebility yet.
Low-angle medium shot. Shows the Scream Queen with little clothing. Connotes she is being watched due to the low angle and her vunrebility, she is exposed and on her own in the shot.
Medium shot Boy telling scream queen to put more clothes on. Connotes he is in a shot by himself so he may die soon aswell as it is a state of vunrebility, however it more emphasises on the fact that the scream queen is over exposed.
Long shot Group of teenagers again, boy leaves. Connotes that the group is getting smaller and the boy is maybe in a form of danger.
Medium shot Boy gets up and walks off. Again shows the group getting smaller.
Close up shot Close up shot of the beer bottles. Again connoting that they are youthes, that they are drunk and rebellious and that it may signifie trouble or danger.
Medium shot –two shot Boy and Girl holding hands by the campsite, final girl sat in the background. Boy and girl walk off in different directions to get firewood. That they are a couple, when they walk off show the group is getting even smaller. That they are in danger being on their own.
Extreme long shot- tracking Scream queen walking through woods, someone is watching her- shakey camera work. Connoting something is going to happen, she is in danger.
Extreme long shot – through the trees. Scream queen walking again. Connotes person watching her (killer) is getting closer.
Medium shot, tracking, Camera is following the scream queen directly behing her. She drops her bottle. Connotes she is going to be approached from behind, attacked?
Medium shot- two shot Killer grabs girl, girl screams Connotes she is going to be hurt , vunerable.
Close up Scream queen mouth with hand over it, screaming. She is fighting back but vunerable.
Two-shot medium shot. Scream queen is stabbed You can’t see the killers face, she is stabbed
Over the shoulder shot The Killers back, he stabs her repeatedly Connoting there is gore and blood there, but it isnt shown
Close up shot Killer stabbing girl- can see the knife more clearly with blood on it. Emphasies the gore.
Close up shot Blood on the tree Connotes she is dead/badly hurt.
Low angle shot Girl is dragged off on the groud. Connotes she is dead and her lifeless and limp.
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