Super 8 Movie Clip "Start Filming" Official (HD) Analysis

Film clip analysis – Super 8

The clip we are analysing is a clip from the film super 8.  In this small scene, a few of the signs we see are the clothes they are wearing. They are making there own smaller movie in the actual film so in this small clip we see them filming. One of the characters is wearing clothes to make her look older to play the part of a wife in the small movie they are making.

At the beginning of this scene, they are practising their lines for a movie. But when the train comes, they are rushed into filming.  They’re all dressed rather naturally in jeans and t-shirts showing that they are just young kids wanting to film a movie.

There is no music in the background because it would add to much noise and it would sound to jumbled up when the train passes by. As we see, when the train passes, the scene becomes louder and were are less able to hear them speaking. But hearing and seeing how big the train is when it passes them also emphasises the danger when the train crashes into the on coming car.

But when we see all of them rushing to get the camera rolling, the scene calms down for a few seconds until the train passes to really give us a sense of the train. But once the train has passed, one of the characters turns to see the on coming car. Again there is no music, just the sound of the train and the raised voices of the characters.

Actually seeing the character notice the car and just watching it until he realises what happens makes the small scene a little more interesting. During the clip where we are watching the car and train about to collide, we still here the voices of the other characters carrying on with the filming, telling us that they haven’t noticed what’s going on.

When the car collides with the train it causes a massive crash, which then causes the children to start panicking, and they start to rush out knocking the camera over in the process. The camera is still recording from when they were filming, and this is relevant to the plot later on.  Also on the shot of the fallen camera, we see that the shot is then zoomed in slightly to show viewers that the camera is important.

Just after the train crashes into the car, rather than neat cuts in each clips/scene, the camera turns quickly on to the faces of the kids to show urgency and the rush for them to get out of the way.