Individual Film Research

The Shining•We learnt from watching the

shining how to show the progress of a man’s sanity slowly deteriorating in a way which frightens the audience.

Shutter Island•We learned from Shutter Island

how we can use different shot transitions when editing our OTS, to switch from hallucinations to reality using fades and flashes.

Jacob’s Ladder

• We learnt from Jacob’s Ladder how to create fear and make the audience feel scared and uncomfortable using unnatural and disturbing images which play on people’s fears.

The Last House on the Left• From The Last House on the Left, we learnt how to

build up the situation from the normal everyday life to something which is horrific and terrifying. This film gave us some ideas on how to use sound to build up suspense. This could be diegetic, or non-diegetic.

The Strangers• What we learnt from The

Strangers is how to shock our audience and make them feel unsettled and uncomfortable using sharp loud music along with intense and graphic scenes.

Stir of Echoes•We learnt from this film how

to surprise the audience through disturbing scenes and jump scares.

Poltergeist•From Poltergeist, we learnt what type of

lighting to use in certain scenes, depending on what is happening in the scene,

The Purge•From The Purge, we learnt how we can

build up suspense as the OTS progresses, flowing from one situation to another.

Scream•From watching Scream, we learnt how we can

integrate jump scares into our OTS using a variety of shots.

You’re Next• You’re Next showed us how we can use

close ups of people to show their facial expressions of confusion and fear to connote meaning to the audience.

Kathryn• We watched a OTS on youtube which focused

on the madness + paranoia genre. What we learnt from this is how we can let the audience know this person in our OTS is going crazy.

Psycho•From Psycho, we learnt how we can be able

to build up suspense and tension when the audience sees something that the person in the OTS doesn’t.

The Ward

•What we learned from The Ward was, again, how to integrate quick scenes of psychological horror into normal, everyday scenes.

Tale of Two Sisters

•A tale of two sisters gave us some ideas about how to use more than one person, and how to bring in an evil character using different types of shots.

May

•May gave us a couple of ideas on how to use disturbing images to good effect in our film.

Apollo 18• From Apollo 18, we learnt how to build tension by

making everything seem normal at first but then gradually gets worse and more frightening as the film progresses.

1408•By watching the film 1408, we learnt how and were inspired to use flashing effects to signify when a hallucination is happening.

Suicide Club•From watching the trailer of Suicide Club,

we have learnt how to make the audience feel uncomfortable using unnatural and disgusting scenes.

Come Back to Me•From this film, we learnt how to signify

to the audience that the character is having trouble sleeping and be able to connote that he’s going insane in our OTS.

Dorothy• From watching this trailer for the film Dorothy,

we learnt how to create narrative enigmas about characters and how to signify something is wrong with them without giving too much away.

Asylum Blackout

•Asylum Blackout helped us figure out how to exploit primal fears, as well as create a dangerous atmosphere within our OTS.

Silence of the Lambs•Silence of the Lambs helped us

come up with ways to create a disturbed atmosphere