Tamara

Tamara Analysis

Opening shot is over titles saying 'from the creators of final destination' which immediately tells the audience the genre is horror as final destination is a famous horror film. The titles connote horror also as they are red/ orange which are a sudden signifier of horror and gore. 

There is an over the shoulder shot of the young male teenager spitting paper through a straw at the girl who gets bullied, followed by numerous shot reverse shots showing the facial expressions on both characters. The young male teenager is laughing and the girl ‘Tamara’ who is getting bullied looks sad and humiliated. He reads her book that drops that has the title ‘journey into witchcraft’ which shows that the girl that is getting bullied is into strange things and the supernatural. By him saying that it reinforces the genre and quickly shows audience the film is going to be about the supernatural and witchcraft. There are then numerous medium close ups of the class showing that everyone is always laughing at her, making the audience assume she is constantly bullied and no one likes her.

High angle shot of Tamara performing witchcraft in a circle and then a sound bridge of man saying ‘do you think this magic is going to make you feel better’ which shows the audience she is turning to this due to her being a victim of bullying and feeling lonely. Shows how they play a prank on her to try and utterly humiliate her and then close up of it going wrong and she smacks her head and dies. The voice over is explaining story throughout and is helpful in describing what’s going on. Shows how horrible bullies were as when she is dead they say ‘I’m not throwing my life away because of this looser’ even though they killed her and tried to degrade her. There is a long shot of them burying her in the woods, with dark lighting to connote the genre and create an eerie atmosphere.

Then medium close-up of her empty chair in class the next day to show audience she is dead but then suddenly close up of girl’s short skirt walking into class and its Tamara and she is back from the dead.

Close up of her face smiling and saying ‘sorry I’m late.’ Audience see she has gone extremely beautiful and no longer the typical ‘geek’ who is going to get bullied. Also she says ‘sorry I’m late’ sarcastically as they had killed her now she is back. Then close up of one of the bullies face terrifyingly shocked as he knows they killed and buried her the night before. Then all wonder how she is back from dead, the audience now know she is going to get her revenge, which is a similar idea to our trailer as its about someone being bullied then them coming back for revenge.

Audience suddenly realise she must be back from the dead due to her supernatural witchcraft and then a montage of shots showing how she’s making the lads love her and killing them off one by one. The voice over says ‘what she desires most is revenge’ which connotes to the audience she is going to get them all back for what they did to her. Numerous titles appear in scratchy horror font which build tension and explain why you should be scared of Tamara now. Pace increases and shots get shorter and faster, the music increases pace which all build tension and an eerie atmosphere.