Analyzing Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows Part 2 Opening Scene

Hello, today I will be speaking about a 40 second segment clip I have chosen in the opening scene of Harry Potter and the Deathly hallows Part 2. However, firstly I will give you a short recap up to this point.

Through the whole series, Harry Potter, the protagonist, is a teenage boy growing with the reputation of the only person to survive the curse of killing. This killing curse was cast by the villain of the series, Voldemort. A very impressive wizard who has extreme power which he uses for evil. Voldemort first attempts to kill using the killing curse when Harry is an infant. Voldemort was informed by a prophet that he one day, was going to be defeated by Harry. Harry re-enters the wizarding world at age 11 when he first is enrolled at the Hogwarts School of

This is an intense close up and shows his very pasty, tired face. It shows his facial movements as his dark black eyes track the students in the courtyard. This clearly conveys to the viewer that Snape is watching the students and indicates that the emotion that we see in his face and body language are a reaction to this. Snape is placed in the right third of the screen which is both aesthetically pleasing and also indicates that he is looking outwards from the watchtower. His face is very stiff and he looks very anxious about the future. Snape 's pale face is highlighted against his uniform foreshadowing the contrast between his character and his involvement with voldemort. His hair then blows in the wind, a metaphor for the “big gust of wind” (voldemort) that has swept through and made it evil. The gust of wind also connects Snape to the poor weather that was seen earlier in the scene, reminding the viewer that Snape is very much a part of the evil in the school. There is then a slow fade to black screen emphasising how major the segment just was, leaving the audience questioning and thinking about what is going to happen