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The harmony gets faster as he finds his way with the trees and bushes, Then he comes close to the argona where the girls are though he does not it is them the music changes to a drum beat with Parris footsteps being able to be heard. The camera changes back to the girls with Abigail walking up to Tituba and therefore Abigail whispers in Abigails ear and Tituba looks scared and take aback as she say no. Abigail then turns around to the pot runs to it and picks up the chicken by its feet and hits its bearing of a rock breaking its neck the Abigail drinks the blood of the chicken.Then Abigail takes her clothes off, all the girls are belly laugh then one of the girls sees Parris coming towards them so they all run apart except Betty who says that she cannot move. The camera angles through all of this were real fast and furious. Then everything starts to slow d cause with a picture of Parris on his own looking at the cauldron he lifts up the large spoon inside the pot and drops as if he was scared of it, when he see the chicken as well he gets annoyed though he is a bit scared.The next forbiddenlook shows Betty in her bed, with a suspicion of witchcraft drift round the place. Only Tituba and Abigail are in the room with Betty there have about eight minutes of filming yet we hear no language spoken. There is obvious tension between Tituba and Abigail all over what has happened. More tension is shown when Parris questions Abigail about the incident in the forest. Now music is played again with Abigail express that they danced but Parris suspects witch craft though Abigail is saying that no spirits have been conjured.The next scene is of Elizabeth and bathroom monitoring device who are showing a lot of tension. This tension is raised because John Proctor had an affair with there former servant, and guess who that servant was Abigail Williams. The scene starts of quite pleasant really with John Proctor and his sons working, the music is quite cheerful, the camera angles are quite far of. John Proctor and his go inside with his sons going to bed and him going to have his dinner. Elizabeth gives it to him without speaking but when they do speak it is about how there marriage is falling apart.Then the final scene of tension is in Church with the satisfying village there when a song is sung the girls go over to Bettys room then Abigail speaks to Betty saying she has told her father everything that happened in the woods. Then like lightning Betty wakes up with her saying I bet you never told him that you drank a charm Abby, a charm to kill Goody Proctor. Then the music gets very loud this is emphasising how important this scene really is. The others girls get quite scared and start to walk away so Abigail threatens them that she would kill anyone who tells on her doings.The camera is only on Abigail, but then Betty jumps up cheering she wants her mom and tries to fly to her out of the window but the girls hold her back and everyone i n the church rubs out to them. This causes a lot of tension between all the girls and makes witch craft a intermit finishing to what has been happening. In conclusion to Nicolas Hytners film of the play The Crucible was directed extremely well make them beginning of the film already better to the book the film sets the scene better and I call up that it also creates more tension.Also with the plot being so old it was sometimes easier to understand the words better with them being said correctly and with also being able to see what is going on. Nicolas Hytner has utilise cinematic features to the best they could be in this film there fore making the filming better for all viewers. Matthew Brooke English Coursework 20th Century Drama Show drone only The above preview is unformatted text This student written piece of work is one of many that can be shew in ourGCSE Arthur Millersection.