great expectations and pleasantville poster and annotations

Great expectations

This is the first scene in the opening, this picture shows a copy of the great expectations novel by charles dickins. This scene shows the audience that this film is based on a novel, the camera shot is over the shoulder as its looking at the book from the side of someone. The voice gives the idea of someone telling the story to us, and the way the narrator speaks is that of a first person veiw as if it was getting told from a diary or from the very person who is the boy in the novel.

 

this shows the setting of the film in the moors, at the time this film is set, there were alot of prison islands out to sea around briton, the moors were near the ocean. this area of the moors shows the area to be desolate and that there is no one around. There are also hanging posts in this part where the boy runs across, this gives us the idea that there will be criminals involved within the story. the wind is quite strong and coastal areas usually are windy.

This shows the boy walking into the graveyard, the camera shot is a medium shot and it looks as if its like someone is watching the boy walk into the graveyard. The setting is gloomy and the graveyard give the inclination that the boy is in the company of dead men, the gravestone that has the boys parents name on it shows the boy is alone.

ths shot is a close up of the boy as he is getting shaken by the criminal, the criminal is doing this to try to steal what the boy has and gets an apple. the close up of the boy shows his reaction when he is getting shaken up and down. the chains on the criminals legs act as proof that the man is a criminal and the ragged prision clothing shows that he has been in prison for a very long time.

this scene shows the aged face of the criminal as he quickly eats the apple he stole from the boy. the face of the criminal could show the fact that he has been locked up for a very long time. the manner in which he eats the apple shows that the man either the man hasnt had much more than prison food for a very long time or that he is starving after escaping prison.