Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Nosferatu story board.

  • Throughout the clip the camera is static and the characters often have to 'walk into view'. The cross cutting often cuts between location instead of characters but this adds suspence and tension to the movie. The idea behind the cross cutting is that it adds a 'cutting edge' The different angles are used well in this movie as the facial expressions are very effective. According to 'The Film Sufi*' The whole movie runs 17 frames per second and that speed would correspond to a realistic presentation of the film.
  • The shots above show the beggining of the clip, although the clip can be a bit confusing with out knowing the film, my interpretation of it is that a woman becomes ill so the professor goes runs out to get some help. After he's gone the woman moves across to the woman which crosscuts to the building shes in back to her. 
  • These snapshots show the tension of the 'vampire' coming upstairs, the woman heres something then it cross cuts back to the vampire, this again adds tension as your wondering when the vampire is going to enter the room and whats going to happen to the woman. The woman begins to feel ill again and goes back to bed, this is when it cuts across back to the man which looks like he's with a police officer or doctor.


  • At the beginning of these cuts you see a close up of the vampire looking down on the woman which is showing the levels and the power the vampire already has over the woman, this cuts straight away a man thats calling out to his master, warning him about the sun, i see it as he is calling out to the vampire. You see a quick shot of the two men (man and police officer) walking back to the building. And it's back to the vampire but he didn't listen to the warning and he burns in the sunlight.


  • Finally the woman wakes with a close up and shouts out for jonathon when he comes through the door, which shows a close up of them both.




* http://filmsufi.blogspot.com/2008/10/nosferatu-f-w-murnau-1922.html

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