Title: The strangers
Director: Bryan Bertino
Writer: Bryan Bertino
Starring: Scott Speedman, Liv Tyler and Gemma Ward
Trailer:
The trailer for this particular film I find was very good and maybe one of the best i have seen it uses a numerous amounts of editing techniques from quick cuts to tone cards and some very clever stuff with the music. It also show a quite long period of the equilibrium which is great as it gives us the idea of the story line without giving to much away.
Trailer:
The trailer for this particular film I find was very good and maybe one of the best i have seen it uses a numerous amounts of editing techniques from quick cuts to tone cards and some very clever stuff with the music. It also show a quite long period of the equilibrium which is great as it gives us the idea of the story line without giving to much away.
Opening title and sequence:
within the first minute of the film with have tone cards displaying messages “What you are about to see is inspired by true events” this adds great fear to the audience thinking that this has happened and the audience will then associate it with maybe the idea that this could happen to them one day. Just after the first tone card there’s is another one which displays the message “according to the FBI, there are an estimated 1.4 million violent crimes in America each year” now this add a fact to what they just heard and the audience will come to the assumption that this is for real and no one is joking around. After this one there is also another message contain the date names of the couple and what they were doing on that particular night, this can turn fiction into fact an make the audience feel like they are watching someone death.
We then see a number of shots of houses and after it shot fades to black another shot appear this time the image of the house seems more deserted and not in such a built up area this make the audience realise that help cannot get there that quick.
within the first minute of the film with have tone cards displaying messages “What you are about to see is inspired by true events” this adds great fear to the audience thinking that this has happened and the audience will then associate it with maybe the idea that this could happen to them one day. Just after the first tone card there’s is another one which displays the message “according to the FBI, there are an estimated 1.4 million violent crimes in America each year” now this add a fact to what they just heard and the audience will come to the assumption that this is for real and no one is joking around. After this one there is also another message contain the date names of the couple and what they were doing on that particular night, this can turn fiction into fact an make the audience feel like they are watching someone death.
We then see a number of shots of houses and after it shot fades to black another shot appear this time the image of the house seems more deserted and not in such a built up area this make the audience realise that help cannot get there that quick.
Codes and conventions:
· Young couple romantic weekend
· Deserted family home in the middle of no where
· Curiosity
· No help for miles
Moment Equilibrium:
the young couple Kristen and James are shown at the family friends wedding having a good time we also witness fallout between the couple as they arrive at the family home but they soon makeup.
the young couple Kristen and James are shown at the family friends wedding having a good time we also witness fallout between the couple as they arrive at the family home but they soon makeup.
Moment of disequilibrium:
the couple look like they are about to have makeup sex when there is a lot of banging at the door, when James answers a door a young girl stands there asking for “Tamara” from this point onwards the couple slowly start to get tortured by “the strangers”.
the couple look like they are about to have makeup sex when there is a lot of banging at the door, when James answers a door a young girl stands there asking for “Tamara” from this point onwards the couple slowly start to get tortured by “the strangers”.
The new equilibrium:
they are two young boys that are going from door to door handing out religious flyers when they come across the family home, when they notice the door is wide open they know something is not quite right so they step inside to see what’s happened this is when they see the blood and Kristen and James laying there , at this point Kristen wakes up thinking the boys are “the strangers”.
The ending shows that the final girl theory was also used during this film. they are two young boys that are going from door to door handing out religious flyers when they come across the family home, when they notice the door is wide open they know something is not quite right so they step inside to see what’s happened this is when they see the blood and Kristen and James laying there , at this point Kristen wakes up thinking the boys are “the strangers”.
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