Abigail Edwards

ASSIGNMENT #6

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE

Genre: Horror/ Thriller

Font/ Titles : Scrawly writing and old fashioned bold titles.

Camera shots: A variety of close ups and extreme close ups

Camera Angle: Low Angles and High Angles

Camera movement: steadicam, zoom and handheld

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SOUND:

Non Diagetic: Medium paced music Diagetic: A character speaking

Special Effects: Edited lighting (serpia), Fast forward and Slow motion

Transitions: Fade ins, fade outs and overlapping

Editing/ Pace: Medium paced, but some images flicker past faster than others

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Images:

Denotation: Wire, Meat signs and chainsaws

Conatation: Inversed images make it abnormal, he doesn’t like death and could potentially kill someone.

Mis-en-scene: Facial expressions are heavily used. The location seems unclean, and the fright of the character makes it seem that whatever is being done to him is involuntary. The killer is made to seem mysterious.

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How does this all create enigma?

Fade In’s create suspense, as do the flashing images.

The killers face is never fully shown so it adds tension.

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THE RING

Genre: Horror/ Thriller

Font/ Titles: The writing is quite childlike and circular letters are overly circulated to look like a ring.

Camera Shots: Extreme close ups, close ups and long shots

Camera Angles: Low angles focusing on her feet

Camera Movement: A variety of Zoom and Steadicam

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Sound:

Non Diagetic: Eerie background music

Diagetic: The scream that the character lets out, the sound of the water dripping and the TV flickering.

Special Effects: Emphasis on circles, the supernatural chair,

Transitions: Fade ins, Fade outs and flickering text.

Editing/Pace: It starts off quite slowly paced and it picks up to a medium pace an stays consistent.

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Images:

Denotation: The upside down chair, the blood dripping, the

glasses of water and general focus on water.

Connotation: The upside down chair could signify something

supernatural. The blood dripping could show that

will die in this movie, in perhaps intricate fashion. The

focus on water could show that something quite pure could be at the heart of it.

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Mis-en-scene: Innocence is played out through the character and her costume. She is dressed kind of like a school girl emphasizing her age. The setting is made to look quite normal until you see the water dripping from the doorknob.

How does all of this create Enigma?

The blood swirling in the water is quite seductive looking which makes the viewer want to find out more. Also, a wishing well that is briefly shown which makes the viewer immediately think of how that could link to what they’re about to watch.

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SE7EN

Genre: Crime/Drama/Mystery

Font/Titles: Warped writing with some parts hand written. Its quite faded. It has awkward spacing and is quite wonky. There is also a range of sizes and its never quite clear and

is quite jumpy. It looks manipulated.

Camera Shots: Extreme Close ups are constantly used, not much is ever given away.

Camera Angles: High Angles when looking at pictures and writing.

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Sound:

Non-Diagetic: The high pitched noise and radio tuning. It also has

a sexual song called ‘Closer’ by Nine Inch Nails which

is ironic considering the plot of the film.Diagetic: The sound made when smoothing out Sellotape.

Special Effects: Unfocused images, echoing/Ghost trail, Black and White Sepia and blurred images.

Transitions: Fade outs, fast fading, page turning in sync with the transitions. This has purposely been used to create disorientation amongst the audience.

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Editing/Pace: Its quite slow paced but picks up towards the end as the music builds. Continuity editing is used.

Images:

Denotation: Blood dripping, editing out sexual words and the pictures of the boy.

Connotation: The blood signifies that people could be killed,

the editing of the sexual words could suggest that

the character is quite conserved and sees it as

inappropriate and the crossing out of the boy’s

face could suggest he dislikes the person in the picture.

Mis-en-scene: Everything is unclear but looks vaguely sinister. The dirty fingernails suggests that the character

shown is a hard worker or a manual labourer. The images of screws through heads are deliberately frightening and are

put there to shock the audience.

How does this create Enigma?

The character’s face is never shown, this makes him quite mysterious, if not sinister. His face is his identity and once that is gone, his identity is removed and the audience has nothing to go by.

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GATTACA

Genre: Drama

Font/Titles: Small spread out text, it is subtle and not overbearing. Names that have the letters G, A, T, I or C in

them are highlighted. It has connotations of a science theme which links to the highlighted letters.

Camera Shots: Extreme Close ups (which create enigma) Intimate detail is given when he injects blood into his

thumbprint. Medium Shots are used as he sits at the desk.

POV shots are used as he looks down at his work.

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Camera Angles: A slight high angle as the car is being filmed.

Camera movement: Slow tilt as the character is in the shower and as the car is being filmed. The camera pans when it moves slowly over the dead skin flakes.

Sound:

Non- Diagetic: High pitched stringy background music

Diagetic: The sound of the car going past.

Special effects: Slow motion is used as the fingernails, hairs and dead skin drop to the ground.

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Transitions: It has overlapping transitions to make it quite soft.

Editing/Pace: The pace is very slow which keeps the audience calm. The movements of the character are also limited. The lack of camera movement adds to the slow pace.

Images:

Denotation: The usage of other bodily fluids and the false thumbprint

Connotation: This character doesn’t wish to be identified and so covers it with someone else's.

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Mis-en-scene: The character is quite mysterious and doesn’t give a negative or a threatening vibe. He is also well kept and very hygienic which lets the audience glimpse at what

the character is like throughout the film.

How does this create Enigma?

A clear view is never fully given of the character which makes you wonder who he is. Also, you wonder what he is doing trying to hide his identity and for what reason he is hiding it.

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The End

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