Cinematogrpahy - High angle shots; they are used generally in the library; usually used to belittle a character. However not in this film; the way it looks within Whispering Corridors is like a CCTV camera - Low angle shots; usually used to give a character power. However, not used to empower characters in this situation as low angle shots are majorly used to show a character’s feelings (mood driven) - Medium shots - Close up shots; shows character’s emotions and when the character is thinking about something or has sudden realisation, not always shown through an eye line match when someone is shown looking at something; enigmatic - Shallow depth of field; used when characters are within conversation - Shot-reverse-shot; used when characters are within conversation
- Transition shots; to separate each shot; usually shot panning shots of corridors or classrooms - Two shots; conversation - Eye line match; used a lot in the last few scenes to show where Eun-Young is looking to see where Jae-Yi is - Zooming to tell the audience when a character is thinking and gives a sign a character has sudden realisation - One use of breaking the fourth wall; Jung-Sook looking back (tells the audience now that Jin-Ju’s ghost has gone, Jug-Sook’s ghost is the school’s new ghost - Tracking shots contrasts with transition shots; show how empty and abandoned the school is Mise-En-Scene - Day time colour palette is bleak and neutral; beiges, browns, white - Night time colour palette is dark and cold colours such as deep blues - Always set in a school; props tell us this; books, blackboards, classroom equipment - Costume of students were the same in every student, except for students from past - Bleak facial expressions shown generally in close ups (mood driven) - Eun-Young is in a spot light when she is talking to Ji-Oh in the old art room; this highlights her and could also connote she is the film’s protagonist - Characters who are having conversations are usually stood in front of each other in a two shot and these shots are generally medium shots - Eun-Young has been given bells by Jin-Ju, Ji-Oh has some as well, shows Jin-Ju is back; signify death - Sculptures; creepy; mood driven - Dead body in old art room - Blood - Art knife; Eun-Young (in school) sculpting Jin-Ju’s sculpture, also used to kill people - Low key lighting; torch Sound - A lot of non-diegetic sound - Non-diegetic narrative from Eun-Young and Ji-Oh - Diegetic sounds such as breathing and footsteps have been enhanced during the editing process to enhance the mood and feeling of the audience - Bells - Reverb on past narrative - Sound design; 70’s style Themes and Social Context - Mrs Park and ‘Mad Dog’ represent South Korea before the democracy; they were killed off and represent the dictatorship. Metaphor; they were killed off to show the old is in the past and there needs to be room for the new - Eun-Young represents the new South Korea; the democracy - Jin-Ju’s ghost represents that the past will always come back to haunt you showing that maybe the dictatorship isn’t completely over - Jung-Sook’s ghost represents that even though South Korea has changed, it perhaps doesn’t mean that it’s for the best and it isn’t perfect - Microcosm; the old teachers represent dictatorship, new teachers represent democracy, ghosts represent a fear that the past of South Korea could come back and haunt them - History repeats itself Final Shot - Jung-Sook’s ghost breaking the fourth wall - Showing that she is the new ghost of the school after Jin-Ju’s ghost has gone - Represents that even though South Korea has changed, doesn’t mean that it is all for the best and there are still negatives to the new democracy - Final shots are crucial in delivering the film’s message - Final scene; how much has actually changed? A warning.
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