Horror
openings:
Eden lake (Watkins 2008):
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18
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optimum
releasing (currently studio canal)
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$2m
– low budget
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Michael
Fastbender is in it (fairly big actor)
Opening:
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Titles
font is scary- they expand
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No
idents
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Flickering
image is effective in showing it horror genre
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To
create flickering in final cut use alpha mask
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Non
diegetic music – horror
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Lots
of red – horror
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Short
freeze frames
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Sound
each time a picture pops up (static, slashing, screaming)
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Main
title expands
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Audio
bridge of children
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Children
playing is foreshadowing (everything has to have some kind of exposition)
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Both
main characters are ‘final girls’ but they are also sexually active
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Main
woman has stylized hair, red glossy lipstic (highly feminine, nonative in
gender representation) she is a childrens teacher which shows hpw she is caring
– shes wearing a pink dress (stereotypical) its quite baggy and loose (soft and
feminine)
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Chelsie
tractor – shows they are middle to upper middle class
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Theres
a lollipop lady + zebra crossing (verisimilitude that it’s a school)
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Ellipsis
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Lots
of exposition in the diegetic sound
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ELS
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Very
strong gender roles (blue and pink clothes) – staple of genre
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Unusuall
for there to be two main characters – good for marketing
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Blurred
lines between ‘final girl’ and ‘scream queen’
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External
and internal shot
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Children
on bikes (jump scare/foreshadoeing) – they are blurred (mysterious/narrative
enigma)
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Over
the sholder shows is what they are seeing (makes us feel emursed)
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We
cut back to him and he is driving (gender roles) we look to him for reassurance
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Binary
opposition of the social classes – other woman are smoking and woman just
slapped her child which shows they are working class
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They
call the beer ‘wife beater’ -prefered reading
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‘man
or a mouse’ – gender stereotypes
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Privilege
pov – the main characters cant see the graffiti on the back of the sign
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Gate
saying ‘keep out’ and the gps saying ‘turn around’is foreshadowing
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They're
destroying the nature around them
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Little
kid capturing insects – foreshadows them being trapped and powerless
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The
main characters are framed on the side which foreshadows that something is
going to talke up the rest of the screan (north by northwest has interesting
framings)
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Little
kids (bad guys) break the jar
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Woman
has no armpit hair (highly normative)
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He
walks in an exaggerated manly way
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Other
kids are playing rap music (working class kids)
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Slow
opening
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Opposite
of usually slasher movie because we are routing for the adults
Bride of
Chucky (Ronny Yu 1998):
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$25m
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15
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Distribution
by universal studios
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Indie
movie
Opening:
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Ident
with non diegetic music
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Sound
is a lot like Hitchcock movies (psycho)
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Fast
heartbeat style music could indicate a chase
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The
title is bubble font which connotes a humor aspect
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Thunder
and lighting (pathetic fallacy- francenstien)
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Blue
tint like in Halloween (1978) – connotes unnatural – can be made with color
correcting
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Lots
of mise-en-scene to provide exposition
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Many
iconic horror signifiers
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Dutch
+ low angle
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Not
showing his face
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Music
is a lot like (psycho and jaws)
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Camera
inside the locker (cool effect)
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Ellipsis
with the door slamming
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We
look at the bag and so does he – we identify with him
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Figures
of adult authority are seen as useless (normal in teen slasher)
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Lighter
foreshadows
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‘curiosity
killed the cat’ foreshadows him being curious and then dying
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Jump
scare
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Effect
of his neck being slashed can be with a bag over the neck and then squeezing
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Male
gaze – first we see her legs then she files her nails with the murder weapon
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