Spiderwick Chronicales

At the begging of the film we are showing the producer of the film when this comes onto the screen there is music that fallows it. The music that is used crates a fairy tail/ magical image with in your head. There is a high and low pitch of sound when the music is being played, their is a rumbling of a drum then this is followed up by a twin-curling, this could of been done by a triangle of some sort. Also the volume of the music goes from low to high, this is to create the image of magic and being mystical, which it has done .

After this we are presented with a couple of extreme close ups of different animals, this makes the audience confused as they don't know where this is taking place, the shot type gives the least amount of information away, this allows them to guess where it may be set. When the animals moves the music's pitch is then changed then bought back down.




This is a mid shot of the room this slowly gives us information of where we are. We can tell by the window that its a old house. This is because the window is circular. This type of window may be found on American styled houses.

We can see a number of bottles containing various things, this make us think; what is this place used
for? experimenting? animal research? ect

The image of the glue or past crates makes you think something horrible is going to happen, something scary could happen next. The use of the close up keeps the audience suspended, as they don't know why its being used or what for.

During the opening scene we are presented with this character, we can tell by the way the person is dressed what time period this might be set in. As we can the character is wearing a waist coat, this indicated to us that he is an intellectual person, also he is wearing glasses, stereotyping people who wear glasses, they are normal intelligent. This part of the opening scene is set in the 19th century. The low key lighting gives it more of a period piece. Also the back wall if full of paintings, this would be seen with in the 19th century as well.