The silence of the lambs

This was my group who talked about Silence of the lambs. In my group was Toby Harvey, Ben Bowen and Dom Simmons. We looked Mise-en-scene, camera angles, sound and editing.The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American thriller film that blends elements of the crime and horror genres.  It was directed by Jonathan Demme.
The film won five major Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actress , Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

The opening scene began as an establishing shot of the forest with the credits and names of actors in the film appearing in a bold font. The camera then goes on to perform a tracking camera movement of the main women like she’s being chased. There is a lot of fog which could mean its unclear and the murders may be hard to figure out later on in the film or to imply it’s early and autumn. We also know this from the crunch of the leaves made as she runs.

We then see a close up on the woman, she looks determined and like a hard worker as the sweats on the face shows shes been running or a long time. The music then gets quicker and deeper and we see a view of her through the trees. This could show that she is running from something and where she is going. We then realise she is doing an assault courses, as she climbs up the rope the light shines down on her face, like she has completed it her and her joy it is over, or how she is a strong minded person.

We then then took it to another scene where the woman who is an FBI agent visits a jail. She enter the jail with a large red light covering her and bars covering her face, this could represent what she is about to do is bad. When the bars enter there is a beeping noise almost like a countdown, when she enters the bars close behind her making a loud noise, maybe meaning there is no way out. When she is walking down the jail we can only hear her footsteps, this makes the audience feel like they shouldn’t be there, or that she is vulnerable.

When she has got to the end of the jail, there is a man standing there waiting for her in his cell. He seems to be the most controlled, yet he was protective glass instead of bars showing his danger. Whenever he is asked a question, he answers back with a question himself so that he avoids answering, this could show he is hiding something or is trying to trick the young FBI agent.