Mise-en-scene

Everything within the frame - setting, lighting, costume, framing and composition, colours, expressions, make up.

Creation of the mise-en-scene can influence the way the audience reads the scene/its interpretation of character or situation.

Semiology - the study of signs/symbols - helps create depth to the scene.

The Woman in Black

In The Woman in Black, the director makes the scene where Arthur is travelling to the house very gloomy. He does this by using very limited colours which are mainly black and grey and he does this to signify the sadness of the film.

The house that Kipps is travelling to is on an island where the only way to get to it is on a causeway and that means that when the tide comes in on the causeway will be flooded and there will be no way to leave the island and he will essentially be trapped until it uncovers.

The director uses multiple connotations of death by using things like black clothing and graveyards. He does this to imply people have died in or around the house.

Generic Elements in The Exorcist

How do generic elements encourage the audience to anticipate events in the attic scene in The Exorcist?

• At night
• Dark
• Isolated victim
• Youngish female, attractive victim
• Vulnerably dressed
• Lights don't work - lights a candle - throws shadows
• Noises - unidentified
• Cluttered - looks like a confined space
• The entrance to the attic - black
• No music - audience listens too
• Tension drops when handyman enters - light/sound/company
• Bar shadows suggests trapped

  

Genre Boundaries...
Importance of genre

Horror Stories/Films

Typical settings for horror stories are dark desolate places in the middle of nowhere. They are set in these places to signify that no one should be there and that no one is there to help.
Typical characters are either a small, young female dressed vulnerably as a victim or a tall, strong man/thing for a killer sort of character.
Typical plots for a horror story are either a dark night where no one is around and the victim can hear things around them or mysterious things start happening in a house and then they find out their house is haunted.

What is genre?

Genre is a style or category of art, music, or literature.

For example, Terminator 2 is a science fiction (Sci-Fi) drama as it is full of futuristic things such as robots and gadgets.

 

 

There are also many other types of genres such as action, adventure and comedy.

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