Sinister Analysis

Sinister is a 2012 supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson and written by Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill. It follows true-crime writer Ellison- Ethan Hawke as he discovers a box of home movies that put his family in danger.
- The opening scene of sinister shows a family moving into a house which is a horror cliche as horror films usually are plotted in houses which is good use of mis-en-scene. It makes the audience know that its going to be scary and shall cause tension because the audience shall feel like they know what is about to happen. They can infer from the location of the film. It makes the audience question about whats going to happen which is a social value of the genre of horror.
-The music of the first opening two minutes links with what the narrative is and the clip. Furthermore, it gives the audience an idea of how the film is going to be portrayed. Which is a horror cliche.

Genres

Mise en Scene for Film Clip

Mise-en-scène is an expression used to describe the design aspects of a theatre or film production, they are expressed through props in films and they are used as a scene matching link so that it looks more realistic for viewers. Another example would be clothing, so you would dress a tramp in raggy and dirty clothes to match their background and part to play in the film.
The Mise en Scene we'll use in our clip is Emma (the vulnerable character) wearing a ragged white dirty cloak sort of dress, to make her look open to an attack. I will be dressed in black and the scene will be set at night so blend in more making it more scary for viewers and giving the impression I don't want to be seen very clearly and that i'm trying to hide from the sight of Emma.
Most of the Mise en Scene will be blended in with the editing and this is so that it is more fluent in the film and this adds effect. James will be dressed in black also as another scary factor to the movie clip.
The props that will be used are Emmas handbag which will have items like a mobile phone, make up and other things which make it look like she is vulnerable and as if she was unexpected to an attack. This is the sort of thing that most women would be carrying in their handbag so it makes it look more realistic and would frighten the audience more to make it seem they can relate to the film.

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Brief anaylsis on film

The film made by Bryony, James, Emma and I, will be carefully strcutured and thought out before put into film as we don't want to rush and make silly mistakes and errors. We decided on a horror purely because I find it the most exciting out of all genres and it really grips the audience the most aimed at an age group which would be more likely to watch more films in their spare time. We have analysed and done background research on horror films which we have also done a few blogs on to give a few ideas on what features our film will contain. There are certain skills and techniques used in horror films to give off effects to scare the auidience and intrigue them more into what the plot is. I will give an example as to the camera angles, shots, and techniques we'll be using in our short video clip to the film.

These skills would be:
Zoom- This is used when they want the audience to see something specific about what is on camera, it could be emotion on the characters face or it could be an object of some sort.
Two shot- Commonly used when two people are having either a casual conversation giving vital information or they are interacting about what has happened previously when they want the audience to pay attention to what they're saying.
Long shot- This will be used to give someone a view of the surroundings and the character involved. This will be effective in the scary parts in our small horror film clip as it is commonly used in most other horror films.
Extreme long shot- This will be the shot that we use mostly and this is because you can see a slight outline of the character but not details, it also focuses more on the setting so that the audience don't know too much about the character and it adds suspense.