Black Swan Film Studies Analysis
By Gabbii & Dom

The film black swan many different examples of cinematography. For example, the scene that is used starts off with the camera tracking the main character down the stairs. This makes the audience feel as if we are following her down the stairs. Sound in this scene is diegetic as it is playing softly in the background but coming from upstairs from the performance going on.

The next scene is her entering the room the camera shows what has happened in the room by panning around showing a broken mirror and a pool of blood spilling underneath the storage cupboard door. then the camera shows a close up reaction shot of her face. The music starts getting faster as she becomes more stressed the music reacts to her reactions.

The camera tracks every movement she makes, copying her pace and emotions. If she's rushed the musics rushed and the pace of the camera movement is rushed, if she's stressed the music copies the emotion and if she's sad the music becomes sad and the pace of camera movement becomes slow.  She takes a towel from a high shelf and places it in the pool of blood to clear it up.

From this shot there is a fade dissolve in to the next shot we see a long shot zoom in to a close up.  We are shown the scene of her rushing around stressed fade out whilst a calmer shot of her doing her makeup fades in. This fade dissolve shows her emotions change from rushed and stressed to calm and relaxed as she does her makeup. This fade dissolve shows the audience a dramatic change in emotion and state of mind. This also shows her going from the first shot of her make up being dark and evil to the dissolve into her doing her make u which is light white and innocent.Which symbolises her persona of doing a dark and evil act and trying to cover up the mess with innocence.

The next shot is a close- up reaction shot. This shows the facial expression of the character reacting to the girl she thought she had just killed turning up knocking on her door fine a live and well. At this point the music pauses and then gets fast and stressful then as she's shocked and confused.

The shot then cuts to her closing the door shocked looking around the room quickly rushing and then cuts to a close-up of a