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Codes in Film Analysis

An opening sequence in a film can reveal a lot about the message the director is trying to convey to the audience. They achieve this through the characters acting, the setting, set design, etc. In an assignment my teammates and I completed we did a sequence and message analysis of the movie "Secret Obsession". This film is about a woman who gets into a terrible accident and wakes up in a hospital to who she thinks is her husband. The man turns out to be a random man who was crazily obsessed with this woman and went to lengths such as killing her parents and real husband in order to create a make-believe happy life with her. The opening of a movie can also be used as an attention grabber. In this film the opening was climatic scene of the woman running away from a mysterious man, she hides and then gets chased down as she tries to escape, she finally gets ran over by a car then she wakes up in a hospital. This opening was a flashback. Flashbacks can be used to give the audience context and details to help them understand things in the film as it goes on. The picture below is a slide from the PowerPoint me and my teammates created about message and audience relating to an opening scene. 



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