Madison County Film similar to ours first 15 minutes analysed

Madison County

A group of college kid’s travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is nowhere to be found and the towns people act like they haven't seen him in years. They also say that the killer never existed and the murders never happened. However, when the kids start digging around to get their own answers, they find out that the stories may be more real than the townspeople are letting on.

Wide shot of girl as she wakes up in the back of a van that is moving, panics, camera shakes to resemble her panicking, there is non-diegetic music, which is like screeching, it becomes louder and louder as she gradually raises her body and look around. The pace of the shot is fast, and she stays on the screen throughout the whole scene, it moves fast to resemble the girl, she is panicking and scared, her heart will be moving fast just like the scene. The lighting is natural, outdoor lighting, to create a real life situation and feel to relate it to the audience. The woman’s performance is as if shows her to look scared and frightened as she does not know where she is going. The costume on the girl is just underwear, which is dirty and ragged and her makeup is dirt and blood effects as if she has been put in danger, it makes the audience wonder what kind of situation she is in and what has happened to her.  The setting is a road and a vehicle moving on it, the audience are made to be curious as to where the vehicle will be taking her and wonder who his driving it.

Two shot of the man as he goes towards the girl to hit her with the shovel, the camera shakes and moves backwards as she runs away from the man. The screeching music gets faster and carries on to get louder, which connotates the man’s movements as he moves towards her, himself getting faster. Building up to a crescendo as the man hits her. The girl is heard crying and whimpering as she tries to run away it resembles her struggle and there is a sound effect as the spade hits the girl. The pace of the shot is fast as she runs away to resemble the speed of her running; the lighting is once again daylight to resemble the real world. The performance of the man is anger, rage and power as he tries to get the girl; this makes him seem more powerful against the weak girl who tries to escape. The prop used by the man is a shovel which the man next uses to hit the girl over the head with.

An establishing shot of the title of the film; it is in red which connotates danger and resembles blood which relates to the genre of the film which is horror.

The shot then changes to the start of the film where the story begins, the cast are shown setting off on their road trip. It is a wide shot from far away and it seems to be in the perspective of somebody who is watching them as it is blurry too. The sound is just muffled voices talking as if somebody is trying to hear what they are saying.

The shot is a wide shot of the girl as she brushes her teeth, she is seen turning as she hears somebody in the trees, and the audience see that the person is watching her.  The sound is non-diegetic and is low and quiet, there is also the sound effect of rustling which is mean to sound like the person in the woods walking as they watch her, it puts the audience on edge, and they wonder what will happen to the girl next. The shot focuses mostly on the girl and there is an eye line match as she watches for someone in the woods.