Cry Wolf Film Analysis

Cry Wolf
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Year: 2005
Budget: £1m

IDENTS

• Rogue Pictures

The opening begins with diagetic sounds of a high pitched screaming denoting that the voice is of a female. 

The first shot is a dark side on medium shot of a girl running through an isolated woods at night time (this is denoted by the darkness). 

There is an extreme long shot of the girl running past and then a torch light on the right hand side following the girl, denoting that she is being chased. 

The next shot is a long shot head on view of the girl (in which we first see her facial features, she has blonde hair, denoting that she is a scream queen and connoting that she will die). The girl runs diagonally past the camera and the subject with the torchlight is following her. (The audience can still hear diagetic sounds of her out of breath and screaming) 

The girl falls into a heap full of leaves, the audiences hears diagetic sound of a twig breaking which could possibly denote that she has a broken bone, connoting that she is unable to move. 

A P.O.V shot is shown of the person with the torchlight searching for the girl, moving the torchlight across the leaves, connoting that she is his prey.

There is a close up shot of a phone, anchoring the time era, the subject scrolls down his contact list and stops at 'Becky', the then rings the phone. 

The scream queens phone starts ringing, using exposition to tell the audience the scream queens name, and also denoting that the predator and scream queen have a relationship, they know each other. 

There is non diagetic sound of a siren like sound, building tension, as the music gets faster, there is a dutch angle (denoting that something is wrong) of a medium close up of the scream queen crying. 

A diagetic sound of a gunshot is heard denoting that the girl has been killed. 

a Transition is used straight afterwards to denote the ending of the opening. 

THE OPENING LASTS 2.02 MINUTES 

(Which is similar to the time allowed for the AS student opening of a slasher film)