a- The MACRO elements ( story lines, key themes, plots, characters and social group )
b- The MICRO elements ( typical uses of camera , editing, sound and mise-en-scene)
c- The order of the title credits
Ginger Snaps:
MACRO ELEMENTS-
Storyline- Introduces brutal deaths of young girls who are murdered in brutal mysterious ways.
Key Theme- Horror and Mystery
Characters- Young females
MICRO ELEMENTS-
Camera
- Camera shaking and this indicates fear and terror as well as an introduction into a unstable environment which the audience will be introduced to shortly
- Taking snaps of the main characters and zooming into them to show their importance
- Fast pace accelerating the audiences thoughts and images which they receive in their minds
- Tilted angles showing that there's something unstable in the environment
-Close up shots emphasising the brutality that has taken place
Editing
- Continuous cuts showing different faces and scenes and places
- Accelerating speed which speeds up the audiences thoughts and also a very slow pace which slows down and shows the title credits
- Special effects which change from a vintage to a black and white and very high contrast effect (generally used in horror and mystery genres)
Mise-En-Scene
-Location placed at a suburb to create an everyday normal neighbourhood
-Customs mainly dresses as the main characters shown are all of a young teenager girl age
- Make-up which is red, bloody, blue and purple to emphasise the bruises and scarrs
-Props(tables,cups,bed,car,bathtub,pitchfork,knife,rope and bag,lawnmower and tablets
-Lighting, vintage and red lighting
Sound
-Sad music in the introduction mixed with girls screaming, foreshadowing the events which are yet to be shown
- Changing into a scary, worrying, screeching and screaming sound as well as introducing the sound of the video shown as well as musical score
-snapshot sounds of when the picture is taken of the main characters and title credits
TITLE SEQUENCE-
American Horror Movie:
MACRO ELEMENTS-
Storyline- Experiments which are being done on babies and historical pictures of young children
Key theme- Horror
Characters- Babies
MICRO ELEMENTS-
Camera
-Camera blinking
-Fast pace
-Low angle shots
-Showing bits and clues not giving away the whole story or location which leaves the audience to want to carry on watching to gain more knowledge about it
Editing
-Cuts; Loads of cuts at a fast speed showing different faces and different places introducing the audience to the environment
-Special effects: Dark vintage effects, slow motion dress falling, title sequence in a burning style fading in and out
Mise-En-Scene
Location- The opening scene of this particular title sequence doesn't give away much geographical information away. This makes the audience wonder and make up their own assumptions to where it might be, this makes them more intrigued. However the opening scene does give the audience some clues about the indoors environment.
Setting- Inside a building and home based and basement as well as what seems to be an underground hidden environment
Customs- Old fashioned customs which seem to be of the early 19th century
Props- Skeletons, Baby's in Jars, Pictures of babies, tables, tools, bodies, knife
Sound
- Musical score
-Thump sounds
-Sudden banging sounds
- Loud sounds
-Building up to something type of tone
-Sudden silence
TITLE SEQUENCE-
-Dylan McDermott
-Connie Britton
Evan Peters
-Taissa Farming with Denis O Hare
and Jessica Lange
-Created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk
-American Horror Story
The Grudge:
MACRO ELEMENTS-
Storyline- Gives audience a sense of death of a mother and a child and a haunting mystery behind it
Key Themes- Horror
Characters- A mother and a son
Social groups- Middle class family
MICRO ELEMENTS-
Camera
-Camera tilted when showing the house and this indicates that something is wrong with the house and that it holds some haunted history which the audience is looking forward to find out about
Editing
- slow effects of one scene to the other
- blurred
-light coming out of a very dark background
- darkness everywhere
Mise-En-Scene
-Location is not a clear indication
-Setting is at a haunted house somewhere in the middle of nowhere
- Makeup is pale and very white to emphasise the death
-lighting is vintage and dark
Sound
-Frightening
-Getting louder
-Screeching
-Accelerating sound increasing the heart rate of the audience to become frightened
- The tone is of which makes the audience feel like they are being taken on a journey (the mystery of where the bodies are)
TITLE SEQUENCE-
-Columbia pictures presents: Ghost house pictures production
-Sarah Michelle Geller
-Jason Behr
-William Mapother
-Clea Duvall
-Yaya Ozeki Takko Fuji
-Casting by Nancy Nayor Kelly Wagre
-Music by Christopher Young
-Editing by Jeff Betancourt
-Custom design by Miyuki Taniguchi, Shawnholly Cookson
-Production designer by Iwao Salto
-Cinemography by Hideo Yamamaisto
-Produced by Doug Davison, Joseph Drake
-Directed by Takashi Zimizu
-THE GRUDGE
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