Analysis of Final Destination Film Opening

Camera Work

• A lot of fade to blacks when showing titles and credits
• Panning is used in the opening scene to show the different thigns around the bedroom
• These panning shots are then faded into other areas of the room.
• It is shot during the night to get a horror effect and to make the room look scarier in the dark
• Close up on the plane ticket and an extreme close up on 'Flight 180'. This appears to be significant not only in this film but also the sequals to the film.
• Many images throughout the opening are blurred which suggest that not everything in the film is going to be straight forward.

Editing

• A lot of fade to blacks when showing titles and credits
• Finally shows a book with red writing on it saying "This is the End"
• The writing looks as if it is writen with blood which reresents death and suffering
• Also the words "This is the End" again suggests that people are going to suffer.
• The iconic fan blows open a book and turns it to the page about history which has a picture of war. It zooms to a close up of this image. War suggests death and fighting which is a microcosm of what is going to happen in the film.
  

Sound

• Slow, quiet music
• Occasional blast of thunder to show that not all is calm within the scene.
• Music slowly builds up throughout the scene to show tension
• Also a scream as though someone is being killed is heard to remind us that it is a horror film and again connotes a sign of things to come.

Mise en Scene

• Showing isolated figures such as a puppet hanging from a string this connotes death and shows a sign of things to come.
• The film is about a plane crash, and it keeps going back and showing the fan spinning round as if it were a plane propeller, the fan suddenly stops and this represents the plane later in the film when it stops working and crashes.
• Close up on the plane ticket and an extreme close up on 'Flight 180'
• It shows a close up of a touring france book. However this book is turned upside down which suggest that the trip is going to be turned on its head and and be different to what the think, which proves to be true later on in the film as the plane crashes.

                    Final Destination Opening Scene