BWB:Technical Analysis - Sinister (Derrickson,2012)

Duration	Camera shot	Mise-en-scene	sound
1:00 - 0105	//	Black screen	Diegetic sound of a tape reel.
0106	//	Orange screen, looks as if the tape reel is about to produce some images	Same diegetic sound of the tape reel
1:07 - 1:27	Long shot	4 characters hanging from a tree in their back garden with a rope tied around each of their necks, with there feet on the ground, all charcters are conscious, with paper bags over the heads. The characters are in the left third of the screen	Non diegetic sound of a humming noise made with a violin over the diegetic sound of the tape reel.
1:27 - 1:35	Long shot	The branch the characters are hanging from begins to rise as a branch in correlation to this snaps and falls causing the rope to become taught lifting the charcters up with the branch.	The sound of the tape reel becomes more dominant and aggressive as the branch snaps and falls, causing any noise from the projection to be muted.
1:35 - 1:45	Long shot	The characters are all hanging at least 3 metres above the ground frantically waving there legs back and fourth as they struggle to get out.	The sound of the tape reel becomes increasingly aggressive up to 0:40 where it is droned out by the previously audible slow violin sound.
1:45 - 2:00	Long shot	It looks as if time has been moved on between the 45th and 46th second as the characters are now facing the opposite direction and have stopped franticly kicking there legs back and fourth, this suggests they are close to dying.	The sound of the tape reel becomes very quite and hardly evident during this period.
2:00 - 2:07	Long shot	A shovel drops from the tree, however there is no identifiable cause to how it got there or fell.	As the shovel drops the sound of the tape reel once again becomes increasingly louder, followed by the repetitive drone of the violin.
2:07 - 2:11	Long shot	The title: Sinister appears on the bottom right hand third of the screen, in sketchy white upper casing.	The tape reel sounds as if it has run out of tape and is constantly spinning, metaphorically related to the sound of a rattle snake.
2:11	Fade to black		Sound cuts
2:12 - 2:21	Establishing shot	Family home with a removals van outside op it indicating someone is moving in.	Diegetic sounds of birds and van
2:21 - 2:27	Close up	The camera is focused on the shoes of the character sliding along a box which is labelled “office”. Could this box have a certain significance?	Diegetic sounds: footsteps, and the sound of the box sliding along the surface.
2:27 - 2:35	Close up/pan	A new character is introduced, and is shown to be a middle aged male, the camera then pans so we can see the location of the house	Further diegetic sounds such as wind and footsteps.
2:35 - 2:39	2 Shot/over the shoulder	A middle aged female charcter has been introduced for the first time exiting the house, we perceive this to be his wife due to the ease of conversation.	There is dialougue in this clip and further diegetic sounds including footsteps and an opening door.

• The opening has provided a useful source of research in terms of the credits and the titles at the beginning of a horror movie. The only writing present on the screen throughout the opening two minutes is the title "sinister " which appears on the bottom third of the screen at the end of the hanging scene.
• Interestingly the movie opens with an extremely dramatic shot of four characters hanging from a tree. This instantly allures the audience as they are shocked by the horrific and frightening scenes. They begin to ask themselves, How did they get there? Why are they there? How did the spade fall from the tree?
• Long shot is the predominant camera distance used as it stays in the same position for a minute. Once the title is introduced there are various examples of close ups, establishing shots and mid shots. These are all used to show the new location and introduce the new characters