Black Swan thriller openning (Amy Z)

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Camera work and editting

Midclose up of point shows trained

• It starts of with an extreme long shot of a girl so you can see what her whole body is doing.
• It then cuts to a medium long shot of her feet and are many panning shots follwing her as she moves, so you can see in full detail how she is gracefully moving around and using the space shes in, you can also see she is on point so she must be a very well trained ballet dancer. The camera stays in the same place as the girl slowly sits down and there is still a medium long shot. 
• It then sharply cuts to an extreme long shot from the back of her head and it is shallow depth of feild so the girl is out of focus to show something bad might happen to her soon. The camera starts tracking towards her but is a bit shaky to show its a handhelp camera as if to show a point of veiw like someone is stalking her.

Point of Veiw shot

•  There a man appears as if from nowhere and there is an over the shoulder shot of him he is in focus but the girl is still out of focus, as its an over the shoulder shot we don't see his face yet which makes the audience want to know who he is, why he's appeared from no where and is creeping up behind her, which all creates tension. 
• The girl then stands up and the camera pans round so we see the front of her face and start to see a hint of his face too, it also makes him seem like the antagonist. 
• The camera then spins around them and does about three rotations, this breaks the 180 degree rule but it is used to show disoreantation and make the audience confused and wander why this is happening and whats going on.
•  The camera then seems to stay roughly in the same place but at the very end of  the clip 
• although at the very end girl gets on point and walks into the distance so the camera doesnt move but it turns into an extreme long shot.

Mise en Scene

Lighting (almost like a siluette)

• The room is very dark almost pitch black but there is a bright, white light coming from the top left hand side which slowly appears to show the girl almost as a siluette and as she is dancing she dances in and out of the light.
• When she sits down the white light is directly above her they then both walk in and out of the light and the light almost like the man trying to luer he into the darkness as he dances alot in the dark but the girl is trying to get into the light as she holds out her hand and reaches towards the light but then the man grabs her other hand and pulls her back into the darkness, this shows a contrast between light and dark which suggests a line between good and evil.
• The girl is wearing white tights, ballet shoes and a flowing white dress which comes down to her shins, it is white to show her innocents and purety and suggests she might be the protagonist, and it a flowing so it moves around while she dances and poofs out around her when she sits down on the floor her hair is up in a neat bun and tied up by a which flower, her make up is plain and simple and her skin is pale.
• The floor is very clean, and shinny and you can see the reflection of the light, and her dress and feet on the floor in the shot of her feet.
• The guy who is behind her is wearing all black and has big black eye makeup he then puts his arms out and spins his arms begin to turn into wings as he suddenly grows feathers and his whole face bacomes black and black horn grow on his head all to show he is dark and evil and suggests hes probally the antagonist.

Contrast of costume

•  Towards the end the girls flowing white dress turns into a starpless white tu tu dress made of feathers and there are feathers in her hair too, to show she has been transformed into a swan.
• At the end of the clip she walks of into the light that has become alot brighter and bigger, then the light that fades down and it is all dark again.
• Most of the shots are Medium long shots so you can see there facial expressions the girls was calm and relaxed but then when the man appears it changes to scared and longing and at the very end she looks very sad. The medium long shot also helps show the body language of the arms
• The way she moves her arms at the begining is soft and baletic like and moved with persision.

Sound 

• There is absolutly no diologe in this opening, and the only diagetic sound you can here throughout the opening one deep breath when the man stands behind the girl, it is a big, deep breath to show shes scared.
• We can also here the sound of the wings flaping when the man spins and transforms so you can see and her that he is changing into feathers but he obviously doesnt have actual wings in real life so this diagetic sound is probally foley. 
• The rest of the clip is all non diagetic sounds it is a classical soundtrack to show it is a classical ballet that is being shown in the clip. The non diagectic soound at the begining is soft and calm sounds and our string instuments and is fairly slow paced.
• Then as she sits down there there is an overlap of percusion instruments such as a drum beat and a symbol to show the audience that something bad is about to happened and to create tension.
• As the man has his arms up above the girls which as also up and they move there arms in unison together but with the mans slightly above there is a drum beat which goes in time with the movements, almost like he is contolling her like a puppet.
• After the man has transformed from his black shirt and trousers into feathers, full black face and black horns the pace of the music changes into fast paced to show the dance has suddenly got fanatic, disorentated and distorted as the man has distured the peaceful scene and shows the audience that the man must be the antagonist as the non diagetic sounds all became fast and frantic as soon as he entered the space.
• As he leaves and the girl is left on her own the near the end the non diagetic sounds dies down, becomes less frantic and goes back to a slow pace before fading down completly to show that the atmosphere has become calmer as the antagonist has left the scene.