The Hole

The filmed starred Thora Birch,it also featured Keira Knightly.The film opens with the appearance of a disheveled Liz,one of four english public school pupils,who have been missing for 18 days.Liz is interviewed by a physchiatrist and describes the events of the four students in an underground shelter during their school break.
It opens with credits ,shone by a flashlight on a darkbackground,just befor you see the names and credits they are slightly blurred,the dark background creates the sense of unknown.The heavy breathing helps add to the suspense.The intense music over the top makes the audience think that someting bad is going to happen.
The first shot shows the blurriness of the trees,this shows thta it id from her point of view.The camera is hand held it then moves into a girl stumbling down an empty country lane on a dreary day,her hair and make up and clothes suggests something bad has happend to her,and that we are looking at her as the majority of the film has allready happend.She wears a coat ,with socks no shoes,her hair appears dirty and greasey and is placed infront of her face.
This film was a huge insperation for our group as it was exactly whay we wished to do for our film.We used a similiar location in our film,except ours is more islolated.Our Location was in Harpenden.
The first two minutes included a variation of shots for example long shot which allowed us to see her location and where abouts we can see that she is completely isolated from anywhere.Close up shots where important as it allowed us to see her attire,her ripped clothes and messed up hair shows her state.The close up shots used on her face where helpfull it allowed us to see her facial expression,we felt remorse for this character because of the close up shot on her face.It contained no shot reverse shots as it only contained one character.This is similiar to our film.Their are medium close ups of her feet from a high vantage point ,we see the camera following her from behind focusing on her footsteps.This allows us to see her ripped tights and shoeless feet.The first two minutes included a point of view shot.This was effective as we saw her situation from her percpective,the camera was shaking echoing her unsteady mind set.