Director: Steward Hendler
Year: 2009
Budget: $16m
IDENTS
- SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT
- AKARZ ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTION
The first shot is an establishing shot of a middle class house at night time
There is diagetic sound of a glass smashing and a girl screaming, with a shadow in the window, this is denoting horror and is used as a false scare.
A teenage girl with brown hair runs out of the house with her lingerie on, she then looks back and says "Danny, give me my shirt!" this denotes that she has had her shirt taken off her, or possibly connoting that she has been involved in sexual intercourse. A 'jock' like boy then runs after the girl and shouts "come and get it" denoting false scare.
A long shot is used to move into the house, with various shots of teenagers dressed in lingerie and pjyamas, denoting a pyjama party.
There is non diagetic sound of mainstream pop music denoting the time era and connoting that these teenagers are part of the mainstream scene and are alot like 'jocks' and 'cheerleaders' character representation. This is also shown with a medium shot of a group of girls doing a 'dance routine' possibly denoting that they are teenagers.
As the camera continues to move around the house, there are many close up shots of teenagers with plastic cups, generally denoting alcohol, which is connoting that they are drunk and incapable.
A high angle medium shot of a teenage couple on a bed embracing each other in public is shown possibly foreshadowing sex.
The camera begins to follow a brown haired muscly teenage character who says "hey chugs, give me a beer!' denoting that the teens are drinking.
This "chugs" character is then shown, she is female, denoting that she has a nickname, a medium shot is shown of the girl throwing her drink over this boy, denoting previous conflict and tension between the two.
A medium shot of a 'jock' character attempting to flirt with a typical 'geek' female character is shown (she has ginger hair and glasses, this could possibly foreshadow a final girl character) he asks "so how long have you been a beta?" which denotes anchorage of her status and the fact that she will be in an American university, as american students usually refer to each other from greek mythology.
A long shot is shown of a girl on a staircase attempting to attract the geeks attention, "Ellie up here!" giving exposition of the girls real name.
The camera follows the geek up the staircase and along the hall, teenage couple walk past the camera and are about to enter a room when the boy says "I just got tested so its cool" denoting that he has no STI's and connoting that the couple are about to have sex.
The shot moves to a group medium long shot in a bedroom of 5 girls, a tall, busty blonde haired girl (Denoting scream queen) says "this party kicks off our senior year" providing exposition of their last year of university and their age.
The girls all compliment eachother beginning with "i love you because" denoting that they are good friends, possibly connoting that they have been good friends for a long time. Exposition is used in all of the sentances to show all of their names, "Claire", "Ellie", "Cass" and "Jess".
One of the girls asks "Wheres Megan?" using exposition to denote that there is a sixth member of their BETA group.
A close up shot of a laptop is shown which is exposition of modern day, on the laptop, through a webcam, there is a long shot of a girl with brown hair dressed in white lingerie on a bed, possibly denoting that she is pure, innocent, and a final girl. It is then apparent that a boy is with her as he starts kissing her and feeling her body. A medium shot of the character "Chugs" is shown, she says "Classy, my brothers good in bed" which is showing exposition that the boy and "Chugs" are related.
The girls start a conversation about the drug "Rufees" which denotes drug use.
There is a close up shot through the laptops webcam of the brown haired girl foaming at the mouth and all of the girls run along the corridor to the room to help this girl who is named "Megan", the sixth member of their BETA group.
Non diagetic fast pace music becomes apparent to denote rising tension.
The squeen queen described before hand, now known as "Jess" begins to perfom "mouth to mouth" whilst the boy leaves the room panicking and trying to find help, when he leaves, there is a close up shot of Megan beginning to kiss Jess back, denoting that she is alive, connoting that the foaming of the mouth was a prank.
One of the girls says "What is going on?" denoting that, like the audience, they don't know the story line.
Megan tells the girls that this boy "Garrett" is her ex, who cheated on her, and she is getting him back with a prank. She says "That boy needs to be taught a lesson" which could be foreshadowing violence.
Long shots are shown of an expensive looking 4X4 car driving along secluded roads rapidly.
The scream queen Jess refers to the car being hers which signifies thats he is rich.
All of the BETA girls are in the car discussing hospital plans, whilst Garrett panicks in the back of the car.
A long shot of the car driving past a sign is shown, "Beck Mining Company" which is exposition of place, also denoting that the girls are not going to the hospital.
One of the girls asks the now apparent dominant character Jess where they are going, Jess replies "We're going to take care of this" denoting the prank going extreme and also possibly foreshadowing real death.
An extreme long shot is shown of the car moving into the mining pit, denoting that the area is fully secluded and nobody can see them.
A long shot of a hole ontop of a hill is shown, possibly foreshadowing an event happening there.
The car stops and all of the girls get out, the boy, Garrett gets out and rushes to vomit, connoting that he still fully believes the prank.
There is a long shot of the girl being placed on a blanket, engaging in conversation with the other girls whilst Garrett is not there, a mobile phone is placed next to her, signifying that they are going to record this prank, which foreshadows further payback to Garrett.
Jess (the dominant scream queen) gathers everybody round together, including Garrett, and says "Everybody spread out and find sharp rocks to dismember the body with" denoting that all of the girls know the plan, also possibly foreshadowing the prank going wrong and somebody actually dismembering Megans body parts.
A close up shot of one of the girls is shown whilst in the background, Garrett picks up a tyre iron and stabs Megan in the chest, the close up goes fuzzy to focus on Garrett and Megan.
Megan opens her eyes, denoting that she is still alive, also showing Garrett that she is alive.
All of the girls gather round Megans dead body (contrasting with her innocent look and brown hair possibly denoting binary opposition as final girl), screaming, whilst Garrett screams "I thought she was dead!" repeatedly.
Some of the girls still try to save Megan by attempting to resuscitate her, Jessica tells the girls to stop, and begins to make a plan of how they can hide her and not tell anybody about it.
Some of the girls oppose to this idea, yet she blackmails them with "Secret sister solidarity" as part of the beta girl rules.
A medium close up of Megan being dragged to the top of the hill is shown
Non diagetic music begins to get louder to build tension.
A medium shot of the "geek" character is shown, she says "Do we want to cross this line?" signifying that they could all get out of the trouble that they are going to get into later on in the film.
3 of the girls throw the dead body into the hole ontop of the hill from earlier on in the opening, there is diagetic sound of a thud, denoting that Megan has hit the bottom of the hole.
Jess says "Dont worry, atleast she will be warm" including sarcasm which denotes an evil side of her.
A low angle shot of the girls throwing the tyre iron into the hole is shown, as the weapon gets closer to the camera, it visably shows the shape of a cross, signifying religion or secrecy, all related to the greek mythology and "sorority sisters".
The shot moves to a group medium long shot in a bedroom of 5 girls, a tall, busty blonde haired girl (Denoting scream queen) says "this party kicks off our senior year" providing exposition of their last year of university and their age.
The girls all compliment eachother beginning with "i love you because" denoting that they are good friends, possibly connoting that they have been good friends for a long time. Exposition is used in all of the sentances to show all of their names, "Claire", "Ellie", "Cass" and "Jess".
One of the girls asks "Wheres Megan?" using exposition to denote that there is a sixth member of their BETA group.
A close up shot of a laptop is shown which is exposition of modern day, on the laptop, through a webcam, there is a long shot of a girl with brown hair dressed in white lingerie on a bed, possibly denoting that she is pure, innocent, and a final girl. It is then apparent that a boy is with her as he starts kissing her and feeling her body. A medium shot of the character "Chugs" is shown, she says "Classy, my brothers good in bed" which is showing exposition that the boy and "Chugs" are related.
The girls start a conversation about the drug "Rufees" which denotes drug use.
There is a close up shot through the laptops webcam of the brown haired girl foaming at the mouth and all of the girls run along the corridor to the room to help this girl who is named "Megan", the sixth member of their BETA group.
Non diagetic fast pace music becomes apparent to denote rising tension.
The squeen queen described before hand, now known as "Jess" begins to perfom "mouth to mouth" whilst the boy leaves the room panicking and trying to find help, when he leaves, there is a close up shot of Megan beginning to kiss Jess back, denoting that she is alive, connoting that the foaming of the mouth was a prank.
One of the girls says "What is going on?" denoting that, like the audience, they don't know the story line.
Megan tells the girls that this boy "Garrett" is her ex, who cheated on her, and she is getting him back with a prank. She says "That boy needs to be taught a lesson" which could be foreshadowing violence.
Long shots are shown of an expensive looking 4X4 car driving along secluded roads rapidly.
The scream queen Jess refers to the car being hers which signifies thats he is rich.
All of the BETA girls are in the car discussing hospital plans, whilst Garrett panicks in the back of the car.
A long shot of the car driving past a sign is shown, "Beck Mining Company" which is exposition of place, also denoting that the girls are not going to the hospital.
One of the girls asks the now apparent dominant character Jess where they are going, Jess replies "We're going to take care of this" denoting the prank going extreme and also possibly foreshadowing real death.
An extreme long shot is shown of the car moving into the mining pit, denoting that the area is fully secluded and nobody can see them.
A long shot of a hole ontop of a hill is shown, possibly foreshadowing an event happening there.
The car stops and all of the girls get out, the boy, Garrett gets out and rushes to vomit, connoting that he still fully believes the prank.
There is a long shot of the girl being placed on a blanket, engaging in conversation with the other girls whilst Garrett is not there, a mobile phone is placed next to her, signifying that they are going to record this prank, which foreshadows further payback to Garrett.
Jess (the dominant scream queen) gathers everybody round together, including Garrett, and says "Everybody spread out and find sharp rocks to dismember the body with" denoting that all of the girls know the plan, also possibly foreshadowing the prank going wrong and somebody actually dismembering Megans body parts.
A close up shot of one of the girls is shown whilst in the background, Garrett picks up a tyre iron and stabs Megan in the chest, the close up goes fuzzy to focus on Garrett and Megan.
Megan opens her eyes, denoting that she is still alive, also showing Garrett that she is alive.
All of the girls gather round Megans dead body (contrasting with her innocent look and brown hair possibly denoting binary opposition as final girl), screaming, whilst Garrett screams "I thought she was dead!" repeatedly.
Some of the girls still try to save Megan by attempting to resuscitate her, Jessica tells the girls to stop, and begins to make a plan of how they can hide her and not tell anybody about it.
Some of the girls oppose to this idea, yet she blackmails them with "Secret sister solidarity" as part of the beta girl rules.
A medium close up of Megan being dragged to the top of the hill is shown
Non diagetic music begins to get louder to build tension.
A medium shot of the "geek" character is shown, she says "Do we want to cross this line?" signifying that they could all get out of the trouble that they are going to get into later on in the film.
3 of the girls throw the dead body into the hole ontop of the hill from earlier on in the opening, there is diagetic sound of a thud, denoting that Megan has hit the bottom of the hole.
Jess says "Dont worry, atleast she will be warm" including sarcasm which denotes an evil side of her.
A low angle shot of the girls throwing the tyre iron into the hole is shown, as the weapon gets closer to the camera, it visably shows the shape of a cross, signifying religion or secrecy, all related to the greek mythology and "sorority sisters".
An extreme long shot of Cass, a brown haired girl is shown at the ending, standing by the hole, this could possibly foreshadow that she is the final girl.
THE OPENING IS 19 MINUTES AND 40 SECONDS (Which is an extremely long opening)
THE OPENING IS 19 MINUTES AND 40 SECONDS (Which is an extremely long opening)
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