Film Research

I have researched this clip off www.YouTube.com. It's a short clip from the 2007 US film directed by Oren Peli. This is a similar visual concept which I am desiring to produce. The iconography has major horror elements in what I am wanting to use. The mise-en-scene location of the house, such room as the kitchen, living room and bedroom these are all locations in which make the film have verisimilitude making it more realistic. Therefore this would scare and give the audience the thrill that they want. The use of lighting is dark which takes the mood and feeling on a more spooky level. This lighting is effective as its an conventional feature of a horror movie so this is what the audience expect therefore this gives the audience what they want. Also it makes the audience feel like they don't have full control with there visual surrounding making them not scared of the dark but scared of what is in the dark. The use of the camera time on the bottom right of the screen is a feature that I would like to use as this shows the real time scale and implies the use of a home camera from the characters. The use of no sound at majority of scenes in this clip is effective enough as with no sound this builds suspense for the audience then when a diegetic sound occurs it will be more effective. For example in this clip when the female screams this diegetic sound is more disturbing.

Budget: $15,000

Opening Weekend: £3,593,762 (UK)

Gross: $107,917,283 (USA)