Film Studies

Pans Labyrinth: Opening Scene The scene begins with with a black screen briefly explaining the context of the film, this fades into a rotating shot of the main character Ofelia on the ground bleeding. The camera shows Ofelia's nose bleeding in reverse which tells the audience that we are seeing the end of the film and the film will take place before the current events. The lighting is low key which tells us that the theme of the film is dark and mysterious as the audience are wondering what this is about  and the top lighting is the first of our circle imagery as this is obviously taking place in the night  so the light source must be the moon which is a circle, this also creates a bluish light which makes us feel cold. As the shot is rotating into zooms into her eye which once again gives us that circle imagery shown through the film and possibly suggesting that the cycle never stops and it just keeps going round and round. this could also link to after the Spanish civil war Spa