Opening - Awake (Ella)

 

Facts about the anesthetic stage of surgery. (Opening)


  

Cuts to pictures in room (CU)



Surgeons operating (LS)

 

Camera Work

• The camera focuses on a few ornaments on the room with a shallow depth of field. The shallow depth of field questions whether the ornaments are signicant to the character.
• The shots of the pictures on the wall is a point of view shot as it shows the view through the characters eyes, this is because it is handheld and shows how he is panning the room, stopping at certain pictures.

Editing

• There are straight cuts to each of the pictures. Then as the narrator describes the death of a patient it cuts from a close up of his face (to show his emotions), to the surgeons operating and to the patient lying there, which allows the audience to get a fuller picture of what is going on.

Sound

• There is a soundtrack of a gentle melodic piano in the background, which is mysterious and emotional which is emphasised by the narrator who seems to be talking through his surgeries and about death. Also the content of what the narrator is saying shows how emotional the surgery was for him.

Mise en scene

• The setting (operating room) and costume (blue surgeon coats) clearly show the profession of the characters being surgeons and doctors