Textual Analysis Of Saw III

Saw III is a 2006 Canadian-American horror film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman from a screenplay by Leigh Whannell and story by James Wan and Whannell.The story follows Jeff after his son is hit and killed by a car; he is put in a series of tests by Jigsaw in order try and let go of his vengeance on the man that killed him. Meanwhile a bed-ridden John Kramer has ordered his apprentice Amanda Young to kidnap a doctor named Lynn, in order to keep him alive for one final test before he dies of cancer. Saw III also contains additional back-story about the two antagonists.

The connotation's within this film subject to props being used is mainly mechanical machinery and metal. From these props, the location can be told of that the movie is filmed within a set up factory, the film is about teaching people who are in really fortunate positions in life but abusing there privileges, an evil life threatening lesson. The people within this film are all American and middle aged within their 40's and 30's, the majority of them Caucasian with one black American gentleman. There is an even mix of Male and female characters/actors,which is very different for horror films because, groups within horror films are either friends or couples of some sort that know each other, were as within this film, none of them are of each other knowledge or recollection.

The iconography within this trailer is very typical to the horror film genre. Sharp contraptions, with fierce metal killing blades, Rough Beat up clothing for the ordeal's the characters have endured, sweating and hard body struggle and lastly dark rusty surroundings.

The camera shots being used in the film trailer are that of typical horror film Genre with many hard Close ups and Mid Close Ups, to portray and make exemplar the fear and terror that is occurring within the film. Something different with camera shot's in the sense that a lot of the shots are made from behind as well as from the front, almost like and over the shoulder shot. This is to show what the actor/character is looking at, almost trying to subjectively film. Within this film Zooms are used quite frequently to get a deeper insight in to the situation that is going on in the film. A lot of pans are used, The camera panning around the room as the characters are put in situations with objects to help them out. The camera Does a full 360 spin of the room catching all of those items.

The preferred reading of the Film Trailer is that, the target audience would hate to be stuck in some of the situation's or ordeal's that the characters/actors are being placed in. This film Trailer creates fear and panic, the concept of the film being to teach those who are fortunate but abusing there fortune a hard lesson. By this The trailer will make it's target audience reconsider just exactly how there living there lives and also whether what happened to the actors could happen to them in real life.

The audience Gratifications and pleasures offered would be those of a typical horror film/trailer Entertainment, making the audience feel something towards the movie/Trailer. Social Interaction in the case that the viewer will go of to friends and converse about the film and lastly some viewers maybe able to identify with the film, as though they've been in a life changing situation which has made them see things a lot more clearer and in a better prospect.

The different groups represented are office and manual worker's, parent's, predominantly Father's and doctor's. all of these character's/actors are all represented as some type of bad person, that being the reason there in the situation there in within the film trailer.

The pace of the shots are very quick jumping form scene to scene in the trailer. the way the shots merge in to each other is very quick as if a door is being shut with a door back noise added in to the cuts. they have used special camera effects like CCTV, giving the viewer the whole view of the room from a camera in the top corner of the room. the montage is made up of a lot of machinery and mechanical objects and because in reality stopping mechanical items and objects is physically impossible unless another mechanical object is used to turn it of it is impossible' This creates the fear and tense atmosphere of whether or not the person is making it out alive or not.

The genre of this film is Horror, with the sub genre being Thriller and Murder. A lot of lives and bodies were claimed in this film to show the gruesome and horrid detail they've gone in to, to scare there audience.