Amy closing scene analysis

Closing Scene:

Editing
- Slow motion used extensively, often with freeze frames of the key characters
- Still images of Amy are of happier times - dissolves between them; slow zooms into the pictures
Intercut with news footage could be a. home video - also with paparazzi in background - layers of spectatorship
- Very long cuts, the images are shown for a long time SO the spectator can focus on the voiceover
- Final shots of Amy =closeups; linear (from childhood) slow zooms in; often in slow motion; all end with freeze frame.

Meaning of Editing
- Even when dead, Amy was not left in peace - paparazzi and news teams swarming around - sound of flashbulbs
- Director wants to leave a positive image of Amy at the end - juxtaposition acts as an antidote to the hard-hitting images of her body being carried out - leaves the spectator witht the impression that her life was positive
- The caption in the establishing shot highlights that this is reality.

Sound
- Non diegetic nostalgic melancholic piano and strings music in a minor key, influences the spectator to feel nostalgic and emotional towards Amy's death, viewing it as a tragedy. The music gradually increases in volume / creshendo after Amy's body is carried away. Amplifies the sense of despair, elegaic. Represents a sense of sorrow. The music is beautiful, representing the beauty of her life. The music is celebratory of her life.
- Over the credits, the music segues into Valerie. More upbeat / celebratory. Brings the spectator back to reality

Cinematography
- Scene starts with helicopter shot over london; establishing shot. Identifies amy with a time and place - immortalizes her, she lives on through her music.
- Slow motion used during funeral footage
- Centre frame man, draws attention to him crying is contrapuntal to the expectation of men in society, shows him as vulnerable.  Emphasizes the heartbreaking extent of Amy's death.
- Long shot heavily zoomed in camera struggling to focus, voyeuristic - the spectator is intruding into the grief. Camera is clearly at a high angle from a great distance and is heavily zoomed in.      - Makes the footage grainy, unsteady - sense that the spectator is intruding. Asks uncomfortable questions about spectatorship.

Mise En Scene
- Dull colours emphasizes the melancholic atmosphere created in the music.

Performance: 
- Andrew Morris brings dramatic pauses to his speach, emphasizes the intensity of the scene