Heavenly Creatures (1994)
The fact that Peter Jackson (director) has used zoomed in shots of clocks through out the films, suggests that time is a very significant focus in the film. Time is used to suggets to the audience that the girls are under a time limit to kill the mother; they have planned a certain time and place, if it fails than they will not be able to succeed in their mission. The clock also forteshadows the investigations of a crime scene, which is important because it almost warns the audience that something bad will definelty happen. It establishes itself with crime because, when being questioned at a police station the most obvious question is 'where were you at....... -specific time-......'. The clock also suggetss the fact that the film starts where it ends, which means that it is a circular narrative.
- point of view shot at the beginning of the walk ('in their shoes' - positions the audience with the characters)
- cafe scene (shot reverse shot/180 degree rule)
Location
- not a typical claustraphobic setting, in some aspects it is, just a small path, no escape, lost, no one can hear mothers crys
- slowed down death
to the music
last moments of life
builds tension and suspense
shots of feet
-low angle
-high angle
- continual variatiy fo movement
- suggests their fidgety nature - nervous
15 year old girls, middle class, doing the murder
femme fatale
challanges normal conventions
Witness (1985)
PICTURE
The young boy (NAME) represents his calm and peaceful commnuicaty, and like his community, he was hidden from the developmetn of the world, so in unaware of simple things such as water fountains, to scary, deadly thigns, such as guns and knifes. The city represents an unsafe community, there are links with this through The Killing, and Once Upon a Time in America (ELABORATE)
Low angle of the train - Annna K link
menacing, threatnening, big and powerful, leading them to a deadly place (ghost train)
statue on philidelphia station
over the ashoulder shot of the statue
hight angle shot of the boy
child is disappearing into a vanishing point (ESSEX BOYS)
alternative of worlds - another dimension
foot steps/ water running - diagetic sound - natrual raw sound
close up of childs eye - sense of looking through his eye
location
claustraphobic - no escape - apart from one door, which will show the murderes that the boy has witnessed the murder.
dirty unglamourous, smelly, corruption
close ups - continuous match on action shots of different things going on
positioning the audience with the characters/action
Images in the background of the car window, raining, dark, corrupt, opposed to the sunny, smiling, safeness of their Armish community
