Thursday, 29 September 2016
Friday, 23 September 2016
Doll Face - Short Horror Film Analysis
The shot has been taken like this in order to show the audience that the Doll Face woman is chasing the girlfriend. However, the camera shot gives the feeling that there is something bad going on, and the girlfriend's world is going to be turned upside down. It is necessary that this shot is used as the lighting in this scene is quite low and it is important that the audience can see what is going, without being confused on where the scene is set.
The shot of the Doll Face woman is a close up medium shot. This is used to emphasise the smile on the Doll Face's face. However, the smile is not the average smile that you would expect, however the smile that is being portrayed is a sinister smile. The low key lighting around the woman suggests that there is some sort of dark and sinister story behind the reason to why the woman became the 'Doll Face',
Overview of Doll face
The film Doll Face is set on the day of Halloween, where a woman who has come knocking on a couple's front door for trick or treating. However, the woman leaves her bag on the doorstep. The husband/boyfriend decides to take the bag back to the address, the address was found on some ID that was left in the bag. However, a few hours pass and the girlfriend/wife becomes very worried that the her partner is not back after a couple of hours.
Once the girlfriend find the address, she notices that it is a shop and walks in to find that there is an old woman who is threatening to phone the police as she feels as the girlfriend has come to the shop to cause harm.
As the girlfriend sits down, she realises that there is a chess piece that is on the floor, the chess piece that her partner accidentally took with him.
Once the female partner picks up the chess piece, she hears her boyfriend shouts and scream for help, the girlfriend begins to follow the sound and realises that it is just a tape recording, but to her surprise, she finds that her boyfriend is dead.
The girlfriend also finds that is a girl who is locked up in a prison cell, shouting and warning her to get the keys as she is going to get killed.
The girlfriend then releases the woman who was locked up, and then the chase begins. The 'Doll Face' woman tries to warn the girlfriend that she should not run with the woman who was locked up. However, the girlfriend does not listen and tries to escape.
The woman who was locked up then comes across the old woman who had opened the door for the girlfriend in the beginning, and kills her.
The woman who was locked up tells the girlfriend that she was locked up because she was 'naughty'. The girlfriend is scared about what is going on, but out of nowhere, the Doll Face woman comes out of nowhere and stabs the woman who was locked up.
The film then ends with the Doll Face woman giving the girlfriend an 'big and friendly' smile.
Once the girlfriend find the address, she notices that it is a shop and walks in to find that there is an old woman who is threatening to phone the police as she feels as the girlfriend has come to the shop to cause harm.
As the girlfriend sits down, she realises that there is a chess piece that is on the floor, the chess piece that her partner accidentally took with him.
Once the female partner picks up the chess piece, she hears her boyfriend shouts and scream for help, the girlfriend begins to follow the sound and realises that it is just a tape recording, but to her surprise, she finds that her boyfriend is dead.
The girlfriend also finds that is a girl who is locked up in a prison cell, shouting and warning her to get the keys as she is going to get killed.
The girlfriend then releases the woman who was locked up, and then the chase begins. The 'Doll Face' woman tries to warn the girlfriend that she should not run with the woman who was locked up. However, the girlfriend does not listen and tries to escape.
The woman who was locked up then comes across the old woman who had opened the door for the girlfriend in the beginning, and kills her.
The woman who was locked up tells the girlfriend that she was locked up because she was 'naughty'. The girlfriend is scared about what is going on, but out of nowhere, the Doll Face woman comes out of nowhere and stabs the woman who was locked up.
The film then ends with the Doll Face woman giving the girlfriend an 'big and friendly' smile.
Thursday, 22 September 2016
Overview of Ding Dong
The short horror film Ding Dong is about a girl who is at her apartment all alone and she is fast asleep on the sofa. However, the girl who is asleep is woken up by the sound of her doorbell ringing. The girl wakes up from her sleep and walks over to the door, however when the girl looks through the door peep hole she cannot see anything standing outside her door.
As the girl walks away from the door, the doorbell constantly begins to ring, and ring, however when the girl looks out of the door peep hole she does not see anyone or anything at the door.
This frightens the girl, so the girl starts to walk back. As the girl is walking back from the door she realises that there is something standing behind her.
The girl turns around to see that there are some hands reaching out towards her, as soon as this scene happens, the film ends on a cliff hanger as we do not know what happened next to the girl.
As the girl walks away from the door, the doorbell constantly begins to ring, and ring, however when the girl looks out of the door peep hole she does not see anyone or anything at the door.
This frightens the girl, so the girl starts to walk back. As the girl is walking back from the door she realises that there is something standing behind her.
The girl turns around to see that there are some hands reaching out towards her, as soon as this scene happens, the film ends on a cliff hanger as we do not know what happened next to the girl.
Ding Dong - Short Horror Film Analysis
The mise en scene of this film is of a teenage girl laying down on a sofa with low key lighting been shown which may portray that something will be going on sinister, but also low key lighting would be needed for this scene as the girl is asleep. If the lighting was high then it would not make sense as the teenage girl is asleep.
The reason why the camera used this shot and angle was because it could give the audience an insight to what the girl is seeing and to show that when the teenage girl looks out she cannot see anyone. It also gives the feeling that the audience are in the situation that the girl is in.
This shot also tells the audience that there is no one around, which means if there is someone or something out there then she is helpless.
By this scene, the teenage girl portrays that she is helpless and she is terrified if anything does come into the apartment that she is living in. Therefore, she puts on the locks to make sure that she is safe and it always could mean that she wants to make noise to let the person outside the door know that someone is inside.
The facial expression that the girl has used is a look of looking confused, scared and worried about what might be outside the door.
Overview of Clickbait
The film Clickbait is based in an apartment where a woman lives by herself. It has been set in the season of Autumn the festival of Halloween as you can see that behind the woman is decorations of little pumpkins.
The film is about a woman who goes onto the internet to read up on some true horror stories, however some weird things begin to happen, she hears noises and realises that her computer has just crashed on her. While the computer crashes on her, she notices that her webcam enables itself, as she tried to figure out what is going on, she notices that the room's light behind her comes on.
As the woman walks over to see if there is anyone in the room, she realises that there is nothing actually in the room.
While walking back to computer the webcam picks up that there is something behind her, a girl. However, as the room has already got very low key lighting she cannot see anything.
Once she notices that there is someone or something in front of her, the film ends. The film ends on a cliffhanger so we dont actually know what happens after the film finishes.
The film is about a woman who goes onto the internet to read up on some true horror stories, however some weird things begin to happen, she hears noises and realises that her computer has just crashed on her. While the computer crashes on her, she notices that her webcam enables itself, as she tried to figure out what is going on, she notices that the room's light behind her comes on.
As the woman walks over to see if there is anyone in the room, she realises that there is nothing actually in the room.
While walking back to computer the webcam picks up that there is something behind her, a girl. However, as the room has already got very low key lighting she cannot see anything.
Once she notices that there is someone or something in front of her, the film ends. The film ends on a cliffhanger so we dont actually know what happens after the film finishes.
Clickbait - Short horror movie analysis
A point of the shot and birds eye angle would have been used to let the audience experience what the actress in the short horror movie would be seeing, It would also make the audience feel like they are going through the situation themselves.
Red has been used for the word 'enabled' to show that the fact that the webcam has come on automatically suggests that something bad is going to happen. The colour red also gives the connotations of blood, devil and anger.
You can that in there background you can see that there is decor to show that it is Halloween as there are little light lanterns which are little pumpkins. This could also be the reason why the producers and directors decided that they wanted to go with this story line and choose the low key lighting.
The low key lighting shows that there is that something is lurking in the dark and that something may even jump out on the women while she is trying to figure out what is going on behind her, and if there is anything or anyone out to get her.
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
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