Analysis of the opening to a Horror film: Jeeper's Creeper's 2
The opening credits to the film starts off basic but keeping its leery Ora. The credits are shown in standard white text against a black background, with no music playing just total silence. Towards the audience this gives the 'expect the unexpected' feeling.
This being Jeeper's Creeper's 2, shows that this is part of a sequel. Which is similar to The Grudge, this could be a trend for Horror films. However they did not show clips or flashbacks from the first Jeeper's Creeper's, instead of this they used words showing dates to show the name of the place where the second film was situated and the day, month and year, as that later on during the film has a severely relevant reference to what is happening in the film. This writing is faded on and off the screen in slow motion, which keeps the audience engaged with the screen.
As soon as the film story starts the diagetic sound from the tractor suddenly starts getting louder and louder. Next there is an establishing tracking shot to show the view from across the desolate wheat fields, showing how out of place and lonesome the scene really is. After the scene has been set, more writing appears across the screen stating the day, month and the year once again. Next more diagetic sound starts but this time its the crows, which are suspiciously sat on one scare crow but not the other, this tells the audience things are going to start getting sour.
The young boys father noisily starts up his tractor and starts farming, but there is also an extreme close up of one particular part of the tractor. The normal everyday farming continues showing an establishing shot of the young boy, his brother and their father.
A long shot is then shown of the boy walking away into the dry wheat fields. The loud non-diagetic music starts as the dog barks as loud as he possibly could when he hears unusual rustling in the fields. The dog is used cleverly as animals are meant to have a sixth sense when something is not right. This not only indicates the boys family that something is wrong but it also tells the audience that something is not right but very very wrong.
A behind the shoulder shot is taken from behind the young boy in the feild with the dark mysterious bat posing as a scarecrow. This shot is engaging with the audience making the feel like they're intruding on this horrific event.
A slow tracking shot then shows the monster's face. The none diagetis sound gets louder and louder along with the dogs barking, as the establishing shot from the fathers point of veiw sets the scene of the boy being dragged through the wheat feilds. Then the next shot shockingly shows a veiw looking up to the sky watching the monster fly off with eyoung boy in his claws. The music then stops. This creates fear for the audience of what's going to happen next? A zooming on extreame close up is the the last shot shown of the fathers eyes before the plot is continued.
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Analysis of the opening to a Horror film: Scream
The opening to the film is very inviting to the audience because it's filmed as if you are there with the character or the 'victim' of that particular scenario. This illusion is created by the way that shot had been filmed, this was done by using a tracking shot. At first it was a medium shot of Drew Barrymore in the kitchen on the house phone to a stranger, whilst she is the the kitchen she is fiddling with the knives in a wooden chopping block. This creates irony as she is on the phone to a stranger and could potentially be murdered that night. The use of the diagetic sound of the popping popcorn in the background is used to the max as the sound of the popping gets louder and louder, this helps to build up more tension and suspense as to what is going to happen next. The camera then followers her as she walks out of her kitchen and around her her desolate house. This shot is from behind the shoulder and also done with a hand held camera, that looks like the audience are sneaking up behind her.
For the beginning of the film
using a medium shot is very enticing for a horror film because it shows its surroundings and the background. For example whilst Drew is talking on the phone she's standing right in front of the garden door windows, where there's just enough site to see a sneak preview of whats going on outside behind her. This gives off the same effect as the 'behind the shoulder peering shot', except you are also able to see the expression on the victims face whilst the unexpected is behind her.
The opening to the film is very inviting to the audience because it's filmed as if you are there with the character or the 'victim' of that particular scenario. This illusion is created by the way that shot had been filmed, this was done by using a tracking shot. At first it was a medium shot of Drew Barrymore in the kitchen on the house phone to a stranger, whilst she is the the kitchen she is fiddling with the knives in a wooden chopping block. This creates irony as she is on the phone to a stranger and could potentially be murdered that night. The use of the diagetic sound of the popping popcorn in the background is used to the max as the sound of the popping gets louder and louder, this helps to build up more tension and suspense as to what is going to happen next. The camera then followers her as she walks out of her kitchen and around her her desolate house. This shot is from behind the shoulder and also done with a hand held camera, that looks like the audience are sneaking up behind her.
For the beginning of the film
using a medium shot is very enticing for a horror film because it shows its surroundings and the background. For example whilst Drew is talking on the phone she's standing right in front of the garden door windows, where there's just enough site to see a sneak preview of whats going on outside behind her. This gives off the same effect as the 'behind the shoulder peering shot', except you are also able to see the expression on the victims face whilst the unexpected is behind her.
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Task 2:Research into Existing Products
Romantic Comedies
The typical story lines:
1. Boy meets girl
2. Boy loses/can't get girl
3. Boy gets girl.
These are the rough outlines of a Romantic Comedy, the guy is usually very stressed about getting the girl, during his mission he usually comes across some humorous events in his quest to get his love. These films are often cheesy but likable at the same time, just like this paragraph (:
Thrillers
A thriller often has one goal that is to be met by the end of the film, during this process there is a tendency to to keep the audience in suspense and thrilled at the same time with them hanging at the edge of their seats.
Thrillers have more of a broad range of story lines than a Romantic Comedy, you just don't know whats going to happen.
Horror films
These are supposedly meant to horrify you about you inner worst fears while captivating and entertaining us at the same time,with a terrifying shocking finale.They are often combined with science fiction when there is some sort of monster involved with the interference of technology.
Analysis of the opening to a Horror film: The Grudge 3
The Grudge 3 is part of a sequel therefore opened with clips from the first two films. To show that they were clips from the past they were shown in black and white and flashed every few minutes,this conveys that this is not part of the film but a flashback to recap the previous series. The language spoken in this scene was in Japanese, so there were also clear English subtitles written in white at the bottom of the screen.The majority of these shots were done by using a hand held camera, this gave off more of a real life effect, and looked like the audience was sneaking a preview, this draw the audience into the film because they fell like they are a part of it.
The opening credits began straight after the recapping of the first two films.This was shown with a bloody red background and thin black writing appearing at the corner of the screen, with rich black hair creeping onto the screen. This really gives an incite into what kind of a film it was going to be, because this particular film is the third out of three it is the last of the series therefore expects you to know some things that are coming up.
When the actual story of the film begins it starts in silence, but when anything creepy happens blunt music suddenly starts with a slow zoomed in camera shot. When the first two characters of the real story start talking, they are still talking in Japanese, and they are of the Japanese ethnicity. Therefore the link between the first clip shown and the begining of the actual story is there. This shows that the subtitles on the page can make a big difference on the influence of what the audience think about what is going on, and what's going to happen!
The typical story lines:
1. Boy meets girl
2. Boy loses/can't get girl
3. Boy gets girl.
These are the rough outlines of a Romantic Comedy, the guy is usually very stressed about getting the girl, during his mission he usually comes across some humorous events in his quest to get his love. These films are often cheesy but likable at the same time, just like this paragraph (:
Thrillers
A thriller often has one goal that is to be met by the end of the film, during this process there is a tendency to to keep the audience in suspense and thrilled at the same time with them hanging at the edge of their seats.
Thrillers have more of a broad range of story lines than a Romantic Comedy, you just don't know whats going to happen.
Horror films
These are supposedly meant to horrify you about you inner worst fears while captivating and entertaining us at the same time,with a terrifying shocking finale.They are often combined with science fiction when there is some sort of monster involved with the interference of technology.
Analysis of the opening to a Horror film: The Grudge 3
The Grudge 3 is part of a sequel therefore opened with clips from the first two films. To show that they were clips from the past they were shown in black and white and flashed every few minutes,this conveys that this is not part of the film but a flashback to recap the previous series. The language spoken in this scene was in Japanese, so there were also clear English subtitles written in white at the bottom of the screen.The majority of these shots were done by using a hand held camera, this gave off more of a real life effect, and looked like the audience was sneaking a preview, this draw the audience into the film because they fell like they are a part of it.
The opening credits began straight after the recapping of the first two films.This was shown with a bloody red background and thin black writing appearing at the corner of the screen, with rich black hair creeping onto the screen. This really gives an incite into what kind of a film it was going to be, because this particular film is the third out of three it is the last of the series therefore expects you to know some things that are coming up.
When the actual story of the film begins it starts in silence, but when anything creepy happens blunt music suddenly starts with a slow zoomed in camera shot. When the first two characters of the real story start talking, they are still talking in Japanese, and they are of the Japanese ethnicity. Therefore the link between the first clip shown and the begining of the actual story is there. This shows that the subtitles on the page can make a big difference on the influence of what the audience think about what is going on, and what's going to happen!
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