The Lovely Bones:

The Lovely Bones is a film directed by Peter Jackson which was distributed by Dreamworks in 2009. The Lovely Bones is about a young girl aged 14, called Susie Salmon who was murdered and raped on her way home by her neighbour. The genre of this film is a thriller/ fantasy which shows the afterlife of Susie watching over her griefing family and her killer. This tragic film shows the desperation Susie's family have towards finding Susie's murder. Whilst Susie comes to terms of her death and afterlife, entering heaven and meeting the other victims which George Harvey has previously murdered.

This is the trailer of The Lovely Bones:

This trailer creates an atmosphere of sadness towards Susie's character and frustration and anger towards Susie's murderer. At the beginning  of the trailer sad, calm, slow music is played which compliments Susie's character within the movie. A narration of Susie's voice is also heard throughout the trailer which suggest that Susie is the protagonist in the film, which causes the audience to become attached to her character and allowing them to create sympathy towards Susie and her family before watching the movie. The trailer also shows some of the special effects used in the movie which was used in order to create Susie's after life. However towards the end of the trailer the editing becomes more faster and the soundtrack changes as it becomes faster and louder as it creates tension towards Susie's murder. Towards the end of the trailer there's a moment when the soundtrack pauses this was when the camera was in a mid shot of George Harvey (Susie's murder) when he suspected that someone was upstairs in his house. This suggest that it was a crucial moment in the the film which created a high moment of tension.

Throughout the film there was many times when suspense was caused, the moments which i felt that suspense was at its highest was:

The place where Susie gets raped and murdered.

The picture above shows Susie just about to enter the secret location underground which her neighbour persuades her to be the first kid to see it. This picture is taken from the scene where Susie is walking across the corn field home on her way home, when she is approached by her neighbour. This scene causes tension because you can sense that something bad is going to happen to Susie as she is alone and outside is becoming dark. This tension was then caused to the night of Susie's death. Various different camera shots was used in this scene, two particular camera shots that stood out for me was the long shot of the corn field which showed  the audience that there was no near escape for Susie and no one would be able to rescue her. Also whilst Susie was being approached to go into to the den a match cut shot was used which differed from her family at home to Susie on her way home. These two scenes linked as her family at home was waiting for Susie to come home.

Over the shoulder shot of Mr Salmon in  Harvey's garden.

Mr Salmon is Susie's father, Mr Salmon shortly went to visit Harvey after he developed the last camera role of Susie's photo's. After looking at the pictures he had suspected that Harvey may have killed his daughter. When Mr Salmon was helping Harvey out in the garden this was a moment when a lot of tension was caused as Mr Salmon eyes contact was fixed onto Harvey as he was trying to look into Harvey eyes and trying to read his body language. However Harvey was trying to avoid the eye contact with Mr Salmon as he was guilty of murdering his daughter this was shown through his body language as he looked uncomfortable of looking at Mr Salmon. This was then followed by Harvey slowly walking to his house and locking the door and Mr Salmon banging on the door for Harvey to open it. An non digetic sound effect was used when Mr Salmon was banging on the door questioning what Harvey had done to his daughter.

Susie's sister in Harvey's house.

 This is the part of the film where i feel that tension is at highest. I feel that this is the moment when the most tension is created as Susie's sister is trespassing in Harvey's house to find evidence which would suspect that Harvey is Susie's murder. Tension was created when Susie's sister was upstairs where she found a book of Susie, under the floorboards. The climax of tension is when Susie tried to quietly place the floorboard back down without Harvey hearing downstairs. However Harvey heard which caused drama to happen as Susie's sister had to escape by the window. At this moment the editing of this scene became a lot faster and a  fast soundtrack was used to compliment the action taking place in this scene. It caused suspension as you was worried and curious if Susie's sister was going to get caught or not.

Special effects:

These pictures shows the different type of editing used to produce
the special effects used in this movie. These special effects were created to show the afterlife of Susie Salmon. The use of these special effects were clear to the the audience when reality and Susie's afterlife was taking place. As the lighting of the scenes in reality tended to be darker as the scenes in Susie's afterlife appeared to much brighter.