Product Research

Blue Velvet Opening Scene

• Camera tilt from blue sky to picket fences and open bud roses-representing new life and birth
  Red fire brigade suggests a sense of danger or fire.
• This contrasts with the man on the fire brigade smiling and waving at the camera, (the villagers).
• Kids passing by a zebra crossing suggests innocence
• An old man watering plants- stereotypical for someone to be doing this in the suburbs.
• Woman inside watching a film on TV - a man with a gun in the film she’s watching this suggests possible violence involved later in the film.
• As the hose water pressure gets high-the tension in the scene builds up as does the music.
• A knot in the hose with the branch could relate to the man suffering with a knot in his veins.
• The branch represents life as the knot ties the branch it’s coming to an end for the branch- relating back to the man watering the plants.
• Camera tracking into grass at the end suggesting discovery, exploration and examination.