Task 5 - Nine Shot Analysis

The first shot is a production company credits, which is the Warner Bros. Pictures.

The second shot is another way of showing the production company, but this time, it is in a fairytale-like font which suggests to the audience that this film is a reproduction of a classic fairytale.

The third shot is a camera flying over the cliff and eventually arrive in front of a classic fairytale-like castle. The name of the production companies and the name of the actress, Hilary Duff, fades out while the camera was onto of the cliff.
At this point, there is voice over of a girl telling the beginning of the story.

After showing the title of the film, the camera zoom out from the castle inside the globe and showing a man holding the globe shaking it.
At this point, the audience can guess that the little girl is the main character as she appears on the first shot, and the man will be someone important to the girl, the dad.

Then the camera pan really fast to show the view of the town, what the girl and her dad was looking at.
There are also sound effect of cars, which is a non-diegetic sound.
At the end of this shot, 'This Will Be' by Natalie Cole started playing as a non-diegetic sound.

The next shot is a shot showing the dad driving the car with the girl.
At this point, music starts playing and names of actress and actor appear on the screen.
'This Will Be' by Natalie Cole is still playing from the previous shot.

The next shot is showing the girl hitting the baseball.
This is shot from quite a low angle which suggest the girl is quite strong and superior.
'This Will Be' is still playing, and there is also a voice over of a girl telling us about her background over the song.

The next shot is showing the the dad looking at the ball flying over the camera and the girl dropping the baseball bat and run as the dad catches her.
This shot suggests to the audience that the relationship between the girl and the dad are quite close.
There are still names of the actor and actress appear on the screen.

The next shot showing the diner of her dad.  The camera is panning diagonally upward to the dinner name board which catches the audiences' attention.









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