Individual analysis of a short film

I found this short film on YouTube. The genre is a horror, and the sub-genre is a psychological horror. We can interpret ideas that are used in this film; and also look how they did editing, lighting and cinematography techniques. The tension allows the film to be scary and the use of lighting adds to the atmosphere. The cinematography flows easily which gives the film a verisimilitude affect. We want our film to look believable, and our aim is to make our film as life like as possible to scare the audience.

There are a lot of wide shots used in this film. This keeps the audience on edge and increases the thrill and tension of the film. We could use wide shots in our film to make the audience think something is going to pop up, and to add to the tension. We could use similar shots to this to build up the tension and the contrast in the lighting will be effective.

This is also a wide shot. In this still, the lighting is key and helps make the atmosphere a lot scarier. The lighting is low-key so that there is a lot of darkness and shadows. This type of lighting is very important for horror films. We could use similar shots like this in our film, for when Agnes' is wondering if there is someone in her house.

We could use a shot like this in our film. The lighting is low-key again to cast more shadows. However the sliver of light represents hope. But when the light is turned off the protagonist in the film becomes scared, and there are a lot of close up shots of her face and eyes.

This is a very dark shot but there is light that is shinning through the bed sheets. The shot is a medium upper shot but could also be classed as a close-up. This shot plays into stereotypical conventions of horror films as it is a confined space and the audience feel like they can't breathe. We could use shots like this in our film to create a scarier atmosphere.

This is a close up of the protagonists' face. Half of her face is in light the other is in dark. The mise-en scene of this shot, is her eyes being shut tight. In this shot, the audience understand that the protagonist is scared which adds to the atmosphere of the film. We could use similar shots in our movie for when Agnes goes back into bed at the beginning of the movie.

This is the final shot in this film is a medium/upper body shot of some sort of scary monster turning a light off in the protagonists' bedroom. This creates a scary ending for the film as it shows something scary and it also finishes by going into darkness, which creates a sinister and creepy end to the film. We could do something similar in our movie with a ghost switching off a light in Agnes' room.