Individual Film Research

by Connor Lindop

The Shining•We learnt from watching the

shining how to show the progress of a man’s sanity slowly deteriorating in a way which frightens the audience.

Shutter Island•We learned from Shutter Island how we

can use different shot transitions when editing our OTS, to switch from hallucinations to reality using fades and flashes.

Jacob’s Ladder

• We learnt from Jacob’s Ladder how to create fear and make the audience feel scared and uncomfortable using unnatural and disturbing images which play on people’s fears.

The Last House on the Left

• From The Last House on the Left, we learnt how to build up the situation from the normal everyday life to something which is horrific and terrifying. This film gave us some ideas on how to use sound to build up suspense. This could be diegetic, or non-diegetic.

The Strangers

• What we learnt from The Strangers is how to shock our audience and make them feel unsettled and uncomfortable using sharp loud music along with intense and graphic scenes.

Stir of Echoes

•We learnt from this film how to surprise the audience through disturbing scenes and jump scares.

Poltergeist•From Poltergeist, we learnt what type of

lighting to use in certain scenes, depending on what is happening in the scene,

The Purge•From The Purge, we learnt how we

can build up suspense as the OTS progresses, flowing from one situation to another.

Scream•From watching Scream, we learnt how we

can integrate jump scares into our OTS using a variety of shots.

You’re Next• You’re Next showed us how we can use

close ups of people to show their facial expressions of confusion and fear to connote meaning to the audience.