10th August 2018 — jessica
Sleepy Hollow Analysis
Opening scene
- The color red dripping, we would suspect it is blood but it is wax
- Sinister music, foreshadowing the film
- Close up shots
- Monochromatic shades of color
- Same building and gothic architecture
- Animation with the names as they drip
Arriving in Sleepy Hollow
- Isolation of the village is established
- Invented settings, not reality
- Scary music
- as he is in the carriage we are expecting him to die as it did with one of the men in the village, builds suspense and tension as we are expecting a lot of blood and horror.
Setting
- Mist
- Big building
- Statues
- Graveyards
- Trees are all dead
- A town that has had 4 murders
Walking into the bar
- Lots of colors
- artificial, Fake sense of safety, while outside is dangerous and dark but inside they are all happy and singing and dancing
- The witches voice doesn’t match the setting, creating a juxtaposition, the creepy voice in a happy environment. She looks all pretty and we don’t expect her to be a dark character, her voice isn’t gentle and happy while everything else is
- She is chanting about a witch, a supernatural symbol
- A town with 4 murders should not be a happy place which is what is created in this scene
- The witches actual voice doesn’t match her chant
Flashbacks
- Lots of bright colors, vibrant setting, not contrasting with the rest of the movie
- The juxtaposition is the music and some of the imagery, the music is heavenly and nice but some imagery around the fireplace and the dad and the storm.
- The bird in the cage, the mum and him are the bird in the cage and is passed onto the witch daughter
- The red door of the white room
- An illusion to witch hunting
The bird in the cage
- The daughter is trapped by her stepmother
- The bird in the cage, the mum and him are the bird in the cage and is passed onto the witch daughter
- The daughter has the same things as his mum, the witch symbols.
- The mother is trapped behind the father
- He plays with the symbol when he feels trapped
The forest
- The camera shot gives us the feeling that they are being watched and builds tension for us
- Flashing between the cave and Crain and the boy
- The tree is where more blood is introduced
- The blood splashes onto his face
- Building suspense, the music is like haunted, the blood splashing and he just keeps hacking makes us feel like he is hacking into a person and the sound of the axe, close up shots and the tree.
- The scene builds up, part of the mystery is solved.