Short Film Research: Storm

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a. Common Sound in your genre

  • suspenseful music to heighten the film
  • nosies - pattering of the rain on the windows, door/ floor creaking, footsteps, heavy breathing, 

b. Common Mis-En-Scene (CLAMPS) in your genre

  • Costume: regular pj’s - actors are just waking up
  • Lighting: dark, dim, power is out (creates more suspense), flashlight
  • Actors: expressive emotions of being scared, one guy is calm, letting the other girl to not worry
  • Makeup: very minimal, actors just woke up, basically themselves
  • Props: flashlight to see because power is out, scissors that are used as a weapon, camera that is actually in the film (watching the two characters)
  • Setting: at home, rain outside, bedroom, living room
c. Common Editing in your genre
  • not many edits in this, more so just different shots and angles
  • a different device showing the film happening on
  • character broke 4th wall - talking to the audience directly 

d. Example films of your genre
  • Get Out (2017)
  • Conjuring (2013)
  • Us (2018)
e. What elements of the genre that you like?
  • Suspense that is built up
  • unexpected of what may happen next
  • the dark lighting, setting the mood for the theme of horror
  • psychological, vulnerability of characters 
  • out of the ordinary (not something in an everyday movie)

f. What elements of the genre do not appeal to you?
  • the shock or surprise (jump scares)
  • predictability at times
  • possible death

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