Atmosphere - feel, energy around you in a certain place
Mood - how you feel, emotions
Locations - Where something is happening
Lighting: Natural - Produced in nature, often sun, mood, stars, lightning
Artificial - Man-made light, usually electrical
Warm - Yellow, makes feel safe, warm
Cold - White/Blue tone, makes feel clean, clinical
Bright - Fills room, makes feel happy, safe
Dull - Fills part of a space only, often creepy/murky
Colour Palette - Predominant colours used in the scene
Picture 1:
Brainstorm.
- What is happening: Coraline is lying in her bed doing nothing in the real world.
- Coraline looks bored, depressed and dull
- Technique - lighting looks plain black and white, dull
- Natural - Because the lighting is coming out from the window
- Colour - Black and White
- Dark/Grey, washed out, faded and dull
- Off whites, grey, brown
Effect on viewer - Anxious and doesn't feel like to be there
Fell/Think - Unwelcoming, plain colours, bored
Director Purpose - Looks can be deceiving - Looks dull and don't want to be there but actually it is pretty safe to be there.
Theme - Makes Coraline feel uncomfortable
Other Techniques: The clothes look like they are uncomfortable and are not colourful, Full of orange.
SEXXXY Paragraphs:
In the film, the shot is a long (wide) shot to show the whole bedroom in the 'real world'. This is demonstrated by showing that the bedroom is filled with alot of dull and not joyable things to do in the bedroom. It also lookes very dull and not as pretty as a girls bedroom in reality. This makes the audience feel as if the 'real parents' really want the 'real world' to be not perfect and not colourful for her so that she can be not filled with happiness. The director did this to show that the 'real world' is a plain and cold bedroom but the 'other world' to seem perfect and amazing so the audience doesn't expect this to be a trap. This worked well with the music which is played as we were introduced to the bedroom. This can be contrasted to the house in the real world which shows and gives no feelings to the unexciting colours.
In the film, the shot is a long (wide) shot to show the whole kitchen in the 'other world'. This is demonstrated by showing that the kitchen is filled with alot of colours and it actually looks like it is a quiet warm kitchen to be in. This makes the audience feel as if they want to be there because it is a nice place to be in. It also makes the audience think that the 'other parents' makes the kitchen and the house good for Coraline. The director did this to show that the 'other world' is actually a really great place with alot of nice and awesome colours but it is unsafe in reality. This worked well with the 'other mother' because her personality is basically the same because she is nice and colourful like the 'other house' but near the end of the film she becomes evil. This can be contrasted to the house in the 'other world' which shows the feeling to the exciting colours.
In this shot of Coraline, a medium shot is used to show the detail of the Coraline doll. We see this when the Beldam is letting the We see this when the Beldam is letting go of the doll which will be swept into the real world. This makes the audience theorise where the doll could be going or what its meaning is. The purpose of this was to give the audience a chance to theorise what meaning the doll has to the film. Combined with the eerie music which is played to make the scene already mysterious and more creepy makes it work well with the doll. This can be compared to a time later in the movie when Coraline first comes across the tunnel to the "other world' although there is spiritual music being played still it gives the audience the chance to theories the meaning of the tunnel.
