Non diegetic sound to start
· Credit roll in with images that are appropriate to mis en scene
· Close up on you mans face with a dark shadow from his hood casting over half of his face.
· Long shot of a boat on a bed of ice surrounded by fog, this suggests horror as its hiding things.
· Establishing shot with man standing in the right hand corner of the shot with his back to the camera.
· This shot could signify he has something to do with the boat.
· Music picks up pace and becomes louder
· Extreme close up on mans face. Eyes are very wide and blood shot
· Very intense music plays
· Mid Shot of man looking fierce – showing teeth.
Extreme long shot of man and local town, could be signifying his place in the town.
The opening two minutes show a man who me know nothing about looking very suspicious. Using the extreme close up we get the impression that the man is different and possibly hiding his real identity or emotions. The long shots that are used don’t really signify much as a establishing shot by help generate the genre as there is vast land of no habitation, this could show that if something did happen there would be no where to go or hide so this builds our knowledge and suspense. The last shot show the man looking at the city this suggest that he may have something to do with future events that may happen, with non diegetic music playing in the background this also makes us feel for tense and uncomfortable about the surroundings.
Halloween
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFILFAaE39U
Genre that is established – Horror
How the genre is established
· Very Dark Opening
· Credits in the back ground – Diegetic sound
· Halloween Night
· Sense of house being watched
· Teenagers talking – Diegetic sound
· Looking threw window
· Eerie sound as light in bedroom turns off – Non Diegetic
· Subject opens house and turns the lights on
· Subject picks up and knife and we get a glimpse of the outfit that is a clowns outfit.
· Subject walks up the stairs and see his mask on the floor, subject places a mask on his face
· Camera edit shows just 2 eye holes for the reminder of the scene
· Subject walks into sisters bedroom and see that’s she is undress and possibly participated in sexual activities with her boyfriend.
· Subject approaches his sister from behind and is then noticed
· Non digetic sound of shrieking music as the subject begins to stab his sister repeatedly
· Subject turns head to look at the knife as he carries on stabbing his sister
· After the subjects sister is dead he walks out of the room and approaches the front door and steps out side to see his mum and dad approach the front garden.
The audience find out that two young teenagers are home alone on the night of Halloween, the house looks like it is being watched as the camera snoops round the outside of the house and finally enters the house. The use of the one continuous shot threw the whole opening scene is very rare but it adds to the depth and drama and you do not see the killer but you feel as if you are the person inside the killers mind seeing what he sees. We later see the subject stab his sister repeatedly with a kitchen knife, which he picked dup earlier in the scene. He does not just stab her once but about 10 times, this helps create the feel of horror as lots of blood and gore is included in just the first 2 minuets of the film.
The Haunting In Connecticut
How the genre is established.
· Non diegetic music, old fashioned music
· Old sepia pictures fading in and out of each other
· Camera cuts in and out of blood dripping
· Surgical equipment dripping with blood
· Faces and body’s laying on surgery beds
· White flashed to create the effect of pictures being taken
· Blood begins to gush out all over the floor
· Non diegetic music fades into horror music, tone changes and becomes very eerie and tense over the sequence of the opening scene
· Photos of people besides dead people
· Dead people are all dressed in old fashioned clothes
· Dead people photographed in coffins
Threw the course of the opening scene you get a feel that the events that happen in the film will be something to do with a past event, possibly the house has been cursed by the older generation of owners. you see lots of pictures of people together in the pictures but with a first glance you think the two people in the photograph are alive but once the camera cuts between the pictures and the very graphical horror scenes of blood and knives creating incisions into body you then get a different feel for he pictures and begin to notice that only one person in the pictures are alive. The Non diegetic music starts off as very old fashioned music which is very calm but as the opening scene reaches the end the music keep the same tune but changes its tone and pitch to very eerie music. The shot types that are used are very simple as it uses lots of close ups and pans so the pictures will enlarge on the screen and ten will fade to another and then will cut to a close up of blood dripping.
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