Skills re-cap

During this clip we see many different techniques used which we should use in our horror film. One of these techniques is called Shot Reverse Shot. This is where we see someone look at something, then we see what they are looking at and then we go back to see the character still looking at whatever it is they're looking at.

Another technique to use is the position of the tripod. An example of this in this clip is where she gets to the top of the stairs and we see her in the background and in the foreground we see what she is looking at.

One technique which we should always use is shot length, we need to vary different shot lengths throughout our film to make our film seem more scary. An example of this in the clip is where we see her quite close to the camera and we see her stay there for 7 seconds and this makes us think that something is going to happen in the background or behind her. Then we see 1 second shots of when she's being possessed by the TV. One main shot length that we think needs to be used are close ups.

Another technique we should use is different shot angles. We need to use high angles, low angles, POV angles, eye-line angles and canted angles to make our film look much more scary.

In this clip, the colours are very dark like black, white and the lighting is quite dim which also gives that effect to make the film more scary. If we have a victim they should wear colours like white and our killer should wear colours like black. What we don't want to use are bright colours like pink because that wouldn't make our film scary at all so we want to use dark colours like the ones used in the clip and rather dark lighting.