Sunday 16 January 2011

Devil - The Night Chronicles | Trailer #1 US (2010)



Narrative Timeline:

Period of Equalibrium:
Walking into a building.
Signing in.
Waiting for an elevator.

Moment of Disequalibrium:
When the elevator doors behind them open.

Period of Disequalibrium: 
The elevator stops.
The weather is stormy and dark. ( The camera pans up from the bottom of the building to the top, giving us the impression they are stuck high up in the building)
Lights go out
Hearing sound.
A woman has been hurting, Bleeding.
Not trusting eachother.
Strange things flickering on the camera.
Police, Fire brigade, and security cant get into the elevator.
Fighting eachother, trying to protect themselves with glass.
Flickers of them lying on the floor dead.
Glass smashing.
Screaming.
Someone falling from a building.
Falling down an elevator sharft.
Shawdow of someone fitting.


Film Report:
Title: Devil
Directed By: John Erick Dowdle
Year: 2010

Paradigmatic Conventions:
Setting: America, Elevator.
Characters: Five People. Tony, Old Woman. Sarah. Ben and Salesman.
Villan: The Devil.
Props: The elevator.

Plot Synopsis:
Five people are stuck in an elevator and one of them is not who they appear, One of them is the Devil. Strange things start to happen and people get hurt and start to die. No one can get to them and they are running out of time. Their only way to save themselves is to see themselves as they really are.

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