Insidious Film Analysis, Re Draft

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InsidiousHow the opening scene keeps the audience

watching?

The opening scene of insidious, interests the audience because of the music that is used,the music fits with the mood of the film; the music makes you feel tense, as the camerastarts to speed up, the music does also, things start to get more intimidating so themusics tempo changes, this is why people carry on watching it because of the adrenalinerush as you hear all the music and see everything in black and white.

After the opening, the title appears, the music gets louder and deeper, as a result ofthis, your adrenaline levels go up even more and you start to become intrigued and wantto know what happens next. It gives you goose bumps as you watch it because of howtense things are.

As the credits are coming up, the music is uieter and more high pitched, to keep things

in the same mood the writing is put in red which symbolised blood or death, this makesthe audience keep watching because it makes you think that something bad is going tohappen; it makes you uestion the movie in the first ! minutes.

After the credits, the film starts. It starts off dark and dull and a women waking upand walking around the house. The house adds to the effectiveness because its a housetheyve "ust moved in to so there is stuff and boxes everywhere, she starts looking atphotos and gets startled by her son which makes the audience uestion who is there butit ends up "ust being someone in the family and nothing bad happens.


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TitleAs the title appears, the colours get moredominant, and the music gets louder and morehigh pitched, this happens for # seconds.

The colours of the title are uite intimidating

and tense, the create a mood of fear, this isbecause the title is red and red usuallysymbolises blood or danger and this being ahorror movie, you automatically think of blood;the black background, makes the red stand outmore because it makes the red become adominant colour. $eople also associate black with

death, which makes you think that a lot ofpeople will die. As a result of the effect used, itmakes the title daunting because its flashing infront of you meaning you keep your eyes focusedon what the title is doing.

The title appears uite suddenly, there is a blackscreen for about a second and then the title

appears; this is effective because the musicstops in that % second break which makes youassume that the film is going to start uitesubtle but doesnt and this is when the titleappears. It disappears in a flash effect also thisis good because then the film starts normally butit starts off uite calm meaning the suspense will

be built up.&atch the clip, to see the effect ofthe title.


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Genre &target

audience

The genre of this movie, is a horror, drama and amystery movie. The target audience of thismovie, are people who are %! or over, it is alsopeople who en"oy watching movies that build upsuspense and that are "umpy and have a tense

mood.

'rom the use of characters in the trailer, I thinkthis film is targeted at mostly teenagers fromthe age of %! and over, this is because althoughadults are part of the main character list, thereprobably isnt a great story line that adults wouldbe that interested in, this is why I think it ismainly aimed at people aged %!()*.

I know that this is aimed at people who likehorror movies, because of the content of thefilm, there are a few "umpy and creepy scenes inthis. +ome of the scene could affect peoplebecause they can get uite distressing.


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Director &distributors

The director of this movie is ames &an, hehas directed a lot of well known horror moviessuch as $aranormal activity %(!, saw %(# andthe con"uring.

-aving the same director as these otherhorror movies, is a good thing because theother movies were big sellers and were goodmovies meaning people could probably guessthat it would be a good movie because of thedirector.

The film distributors are'ilm/istrictAlliance 'ilmsI0 1lobalIcon $roductions


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Main CharactersThese characters work well in this film, because oftheir ualities in acting. All of these charactersmade it very realistic using a good amount ofemotion and dramatic techniues during the film foreffect.

2ose 3yrne is the only character who appears inthe first ! minutes of the film, she appears in thelast 4*seconds(minute, in that scene she is wakingup and lying in a bed.

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CinematographyClick the

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- Camera

shot types- Camerashot types

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Camera ShotTypes

7lose up

This is effectivebecause it doesnt showus the whole scene andwe have to wait to see

what happens next.

7utaway

This is effectivebecause it allows us to

see the sub"ects settingand allows us to have

the uestion, &hathappens next8

&ide +hot

This is effectivebecause it lets us seethe sub"ect but its not

extremely visible anddetailed.

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0edium close up

This allows theaudience to see a

main part in aneffective way

because its a slightclose up but stillshows the whole

image.

6xtreme &ide+hot

This is effectivebecause it allows

the audience to seepart of the sceneand give a tense

feeling.

7ut(In

This is effectivebecause it makes

you think thatsomething is goingto happen whereasit "ust showing her

body and easing into the film.

Camera S otTypes

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cinematographypage.


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Camera Angles3ird9s 6ye

This is effectivebecause were it is

showing it from the topangle, it creates a

dramatic effect.

+lanted

This is effectivebecause it is purposely

tilted, this gives aninteresting and

dramatic effect for theaudience

6ye(5evel

This is effective becauseit shows us it from theangle as if it was real

life and we could see it.


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CameraMovements


cinematographypage.

In the opening scene, the film uses a varietyof camera movements. It uses a 4#*rotation,a dolly in, a dolly, tracking and pedestal

down. These are used throughout the clip tomake the it more interesting and create asense of a tense feeling.

The 4#* rotation of the camera and stylised,this is used around the light.

The dolly in, this is used when it is movingside ways and around corners.

The dolly, this is used at the beginning of theclip and reveals the scene the main character:a boy in a bed.

Tracking, this is used when the are goingthrough the house and seeing it throughsomeone elses eyes.

$edestal down, this is used when the camerais when camera movies down and moves indifferent directions.


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Transitions'ade

This is effectivebecause the scenesusually link in with

each other meaning

that it will "ust looklike one scene becausethey fade.

7ut

This effective

because its dramatic,its an instant change

from one scene toanother.

To see

thetransitions youneed towatchthe clips!

7rossfade

This is effectivebecause it graduallymoves in to the next

scene giving us atense feeling.

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sound used inthe clip.


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Sound Click the link

to see theslide aboutsound

-"ondiegetic

sound- Diegetic

sound


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"on#Diegeticsound

/uring the ma"ority of this clip it uses nondiegetic sounds, the sound that is constantlyused during the opening scene is violins andan orchestra, the tempo changes during theclip but only in the way that is gets uicker.

The violins are easier to pick out from it asthey are more dominant because theresounds dramatic, it is effective in the waythat creates a sense of feeling that its goingto be a spooky, creepy film.

The other instruments are able to be heard

but arent as dominant and clear to hear,this is effective because the tempo of someof the instruments is slow which is why itfits in well with the violins because it meansthat there is a mixed feeling throughoutbecause of the style of music.

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Diegeticsound

In this clip, the director hasnt used anydiegetic sound, this means they haventused any realistic sounds and its allstudio sound. Instead, The director hasused selective sound, this means theyhave taken out all the realistic sounds,this is because it gives it more of aspooky effect meaning the audience willmore gripped and they will want to carryon watching the film to see if thestandards are as high as the music.

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-Set and'ighting

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Costumesand Make up- (rops

-Acting)dialog


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Set andlighting

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The set of insidious is uite dark and gloomy,it, has uite a tense feeling within in it,because it the colour scheme is like greyishcolours and uite boring.

It is done as in if the lights are off in thehouse so you can only see a little bit of what ishappening, this is effective because it givesmore of a realistic feeling because its set in ahouse, and it gives you the feeling as if it wasin your house, and as if you walking around butthere are no lights on, the only light that is

present is the light from the street lightspeeping through the curtains. They createshadows around the house as if there areabnormal things there.

5ighting

The lighting in this film, is dark, this iseffective because it creates a spookyatmosphere; this fits with the genre of filmbecause it gives you a sense of fear.

/ull colours are used in order to give you thesense of something supernatural or bad is goingto happen at some point throughout the film.


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Costumes andmake up


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This part of the filmuses a lot of make up on thischaracter, the make up makesthem look old and scary. There isblack eye make up, with makesthem look distressed and uiteevil. The face make up, is like an off white with a

hint of green, this suggest that the character isuite drained and rather old, the teeth are alsorotten which suggests that the character has beenthere for a while and theyve started to rot.The character has like a black veil over their face,this suggest death because you wear black veils at afuneral when your grieving.

The make up used on thischaracter, is uite a basic look,there is much make up usedbecause the character is in bed,this makes it more realistic because you dontwear make up to bed. There is probably athin layers of different make up.


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(rops


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In this film, there are a fair few differentprops used. There is stuff, from furniture, totoys to personal things such as family photos.

At the beginning, there is a teddy bear and ablanket, this suggests that this room is a youngboys bedroom, I think this because of thethings in the room and because of how theroom is laid out, it has uite a cosy, youngfeeling to it.

There are various lamps used in this but all ofthem have a dim light and dont light up the

whole room, this is effective because it addsto the atmosphere and makes us uestion whatwill happen.

There is also a family photo, this suggests thatthe family are really close and are familyorientated, as in the do things together andthey like there house to be cosy and full ofhappy memories theyve experienced.


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Acting)Dialogue/ialogue

In this clip, there is no dialogue, for the first !minutes of the film, there is "ust simple acting,the only noise there is, is the music.

Acting

In this clip, the only acting seen, is a boysleeping, this is at the beginning of the clip.There is also acting at the very end of the clip, itis where the mother, is "ust waking up from being

asleep.


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