Blog #3

Farhan Zakir

4/23/18

Media 160

Blog #3

Scene analysis in Verónica

            Verónica is a Spanish horror film that I watched last summer. It is about a demon that follows a girl after playing a Ouija board with 2 classmates. The scene that I picked out for this assignment is when the demon is going after Verónica’s siblings while they are asleep at home. Verónica is at her sister’s room. This scene features a Simon Says toy that is playing by itself on the same notes over and over. It is going off in the dark, so the colored lights add to the ambiance. Veronica’s back is turned at a medium shot when it happens, but when she turns around the camera does a close up of her face. Right at that moment, to her left a shadow of a figure slowly creeps along a wall and the does a combination of a truck and a pan along the wall to follow the movement of the figure. The camera cuts between the Simon Says toy, the figure, and Verónica who is struggling to move from her spot. There are these wards that Verónica made earlier to keep the demon away. These wards are hanging from the ceiling. The camera does an overhead shot behind the ward looking towards Verónica. This shot is really nice because you get to see everyone and the proximity of the demon to Verónica’s sister. It also adds to the thrill factor because Verónica is really close to her sister, but she can not move in to help her. The scene comes to and end when the shadow crawls up the front of the sister to her neck and starts choking her. The camera follows the figure while doing a pedestal on a vertical axis.