Film Language - Analysing Movie Clip
Mise en Scene
Ellies hair continuely changing from brown to white illustrates a large amount of time passing. The characters clothes changes slightly, one being that the colour of it becomes more faded and old looking and even the scene becomes to looked 'tired' in the sense of it becoming like it looks like its been lived in for a number of years. The use of all the different ties is a clever way to show time passing as its constant thing .
Editing
In the opening scene clip, it illustrates that a large amount of time has passed by simply by showing a close up shot of Carl's ties throughout the years, he is Ellies husband and Ellie strighting up his tie, it is a straight cut.
Camera
There are a varied amount of different shots during the opening scene. One of them is a 'long shot' of the two of them walking up a hill and to begin with, Ellie helps Carl but in the end roles reverse and Carl has to help Ellie up hill. It's all very happy scenery. There is a wormseye view of Carl and Ellie looking up at the clouds and then theres is a birdseye view over them looking down at the couple viewing the clouds. Close up shot of a jar filled with money and as time goes on, the jar of money gets broken and filled up again and again. Finally there is a camera flash at the very beginnning of the opening scene which signals that it is a flashback of their lives together.
Sound
Throughtout the whole of the opening scene, there is pathetic fallacy to match what the character is feeling or the mood of the scene. To begin with there was cheery, joyful, upbeat music to convey how happy the characters was together at the start of their lives and then this made us as the audience feel happy. As their story goes on, the music contrast how it was to the beginning of the play, it becomes extremely sad and slow to convey the awful news from the hospital that they recieved, from there on out, the music never really got upbeat again. The music is non-digetic as both characters cannot hear it.