Task 2.1 - Signs Analysis (Thriller)

The opening title screen opens up with the movie’s title in front of a tinted blue background. This is a typical convention among some horror movies, The Ring and Saw being just a few. It gives off the feeling of being cold, isolated and sort of in a void of no escape. The background music starts of eerily quiet and progresses to get louder and louder, getting more frantic as the credits roll on, this is effective as it hints at the fast paced direction, intensity and chaos the movie will take. The shot booms on screen without much warning of a back garden, seemingly almost pristine, As though it’s too perfect and something just doesn’t seem right about it. Cutting to a man in a bed waking up and he himself not feeling right neither, close ups of his face and his happy family in a photo frame, the man himself being in a Priests uniform. A medium shot of him brushing his teeth reveals a faded spot where a cross used to be, implying he had faith but has now lost it somehow.

A girl screaming alarms him and moves so quickly and unnatural it seems he’s very protective over his children. After finding his children, his daughter seems as though she is still in a dream, the look the father gives her is one of certainty. The father then finds his son who says, “I think God did it”, implying his son and perhaps the whole family still have some faith and that God made lies ahead of them, a medium tracking shot, shows the father going towards what his son showed him, which also suggest the father hasn't lost faith, contradictory to what the stained cross showed earlier on in opening scene. An establishing panning shot of the entire crop field reveals huge crop circles, and as the camera slowly continues to pan to reveal more, the circles just seem endless, on-going.