Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, Part 2 (2011), Directed by David Yates
The scene that I have chosen to analyse is the scene where Harry Potter looks in Snapes memories. The opening of this extract has Harry Potter looking down into the camera where he puts his head underwater. When he does this it uses a flowing/pouring type of transition into his first flashback (as the picture tells you below) In this flashback it shows Snape talking to Lily (Harry’s Mom) Through out these first opening sequences the camera does a slight warp which moves slightly left and right, during the scenes where they are young.
Through out these scenes they use a special effect for the transitions which makes it flow a little bit more easier and actually goes with what this extract is about, snapes memories. My favourite transition is when it goes from the part where Lily and Snape are lying down to when they are in Hogwarts with the sorting hat. She isnt in the center of the frame either which makes the audience look in different places within the shot.
After it shows them when they were younger it then does that flowing effect onto a flash forward of Lily and James dancing which only last for about 5 seconds which then they dissolve into the blackness. It then goes onto a cross cutting scene of different events within Snapes life, within these cross cutting they have a fade in/ fade out effects for each one so they overlap each other which flows really nicely.
When all of those different effects are over with it it has a very bright light onto Snape where he has a conversation for Dumbledore. These conversations with Dumbledore seem to be the longest ones within this extract. This is because they are giving the audience more information about Snapes character and what he is actually like compared to the other films. It shows you that he actually cared for Harry Potter and that he loved Lily. After the conversations are done it goes back to cross cutting of the flash backs/ flash forwards within his life.
All of these editing techniques give this extract more flow and makes the audience have a better understanding of the character and why he did all of the things he did.
SIMONE HARRIS 