1. Film - What genre is the film?
- What is the style of the film?
- Who are the audiences?
- Think about the storyline
2. Mise En Scene (MES) - Lighting
- Music
- Position of characters & objects
- Font/colour (credits)
- How is it presented? (credits)
Film opening title sequence -
The Exorcist
- Music brings tension
-Flashing lights
- Actors names in the bottom corner of the screen so it doesn't take away the action from the scene
- From the opening sequence you can see that it is about a girl being possessed (it is shown by the characters talking and the pries that is shown)
- About religion
- OTS shows that there isn't going to be blood and gory
- Audience - For people who enjoy this genre
- People who have heard about it in the media
- The title 'The Exorcist' the 'x' changes into a crucifix, which shows that it is religious
- There is a shadow behind the font - showing two people
- Credits shown on each staircase as we go up
- Dark colours to represent thriller
Se7en
- Scary music - shows that the film is twisted - music also builds up to show tension - scratching sounds are used
- Scary images - Give us a clue of the plot
- Actors names flash up - shown on a black background - lower case lettering for names
- Colour red to show evil/danger/blood
- Images flash up on the screen to show suspence
- From the opening sequence you can see that it is about someone who is killing someone/planning it/trophies shown/ done because of God
- Objects detectives might have - Scissors
- Needles
- Blade
- Documents
- The film title has difference font styles - flashes up - words flash up so you cant read it in time, makes you feel like you need to watch it all to find out
Texas Chain Saw Masacre (1974)
- From the opening sequence, you can tell that the film is about death/massacre/including a chain saw - also known from the title of the film
- Images of dead people flash up on the screen
- Audience for this film, would be adults who enjoy gorey films
- Flashing images from a camera is used/ a crime investigator is taking images of the dead people
- The colour of red shows evil/blood/danger
- A radio in the background tells you what has gone on, the images also show you this
- The sound of digging in the background when the dead bodies are shown - The noise of a camera going off - slow motion
- The title is in bold writing (the colour yellow stands out on the black/red background)
- Red images give you differnet images of what it could be
Dracula
- Music brings tension
- Red font shows danger/blood/evil
- Crucifix symbolises religion
- Black images of people fighting - against a red background
- Music starts agai nwhen Dracula is in Church and sees his fiance dead - it brings back the tension whe he starts going mad
- A lot of screaming to show anger
- The Crucifix image shows a dark side and a light side - shows two halfs
- Helmet of Dracula shows a symbol of a devil, to show he is evil
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