Super 8 is a film about the a group of kids who are making films when a train crashes and they discover something weird and try to figure out exactly what it is.
The scene shows different shots of both the youths acting and also of the kid filming it and shows his point of view of what he can see from behind the camera, giving the audience a good idea of everything that's going on. It also shows the audience that they are near a train track, due to the little shed thing and the rails near-by.
The main characters are all in this scene of the movie, making it quite an important scene, as it shows their friendship and teamwork and how the characters interact with one another. There doesn't really see to be the idea of a 'main character' as such in this scene as it mainly focussed on them as a whole and the relationships between them.
There are a lot of establishing and medium shots during this scene of the film, which is typical of the action/thriller genre as it gives the audience a good chance to both get to know the setting, whether it is a fantasy setting or somewhere realistic and also who the main characters are and what kind of people they are. The establishing shots in Super 8 show the viewer that it is set in a realistic world, in real places, however features unrealistic a few unrealistic events, such as the discovery of the weird cube things. Using normal, every day characters who are very naturalistic adds a more realistic element to the film though, as they are characters the audience can relate to better.
There is some cutting from one shot to the next in Super 8 to create the idea of chaos and disaster as the choppy shots give he idea of confusion and make it more disorientating for the audience to watch, however, the more calm bits before the chaos are much smoother to make the audience believe everything is going fine. Other shots flow from one to the next more smoothly and naturally, to contrast with the chaos and make an obvious distinction between the bits where bad things are happening and the parts where it is more calm and relaxed.
The lighting and setting throughout the film is quite realistic as it is set as though it is in real life cities featuring ordinary people and not in a made up place, however, a lot of fx and cg is used to create the train crash with the cubes, as this isn't exactly the kind of thing they could actually film properly, however, the unreal element being in a real setting makes it seem less questionable to the audience as it seems more natural and will be more relatable if it is in a setting that they are used to.
The narrative of the film is fairly straight forward with not really any flash backs or flash forwards and the story is mostly told as it is happening through use of dialogue and also through what is happening visually. However, there are some flashback scenes which give the viewer some insight into the characters past, making it more interesting as bits are revealed along the way.
A very naturalistic style of acting is used in Super 8 and all the characters seem to be relatively normal and average-person like. I think this is used to make it seem as real as possible to make it more relatable for the audience if the characters are just regular people with regular families.
There is a lot of diegetic sound in the film such as characters voices and the sounds that come from the train crash. Yet again, I believe is is used to continue the natural and real life like effect of the film. There is also some non-diegetic sound such as dramatic music, which is very typical of films of this genre as it helps to build tension and create drama, as well as potentially foreshadowing coming events.
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