I watched the beginning of two films. It and creep.
At the start of it, the setting is in an American neighbourhood. The atmosphere is really dull and not what you would expect when your usually looking at this type of scenery in another film. When the little girl was outside it began to thunder. This suggested that something bad was going to happen. When the audience find out that the girl has been murdered by the clown it begins to rain. You don’t usually symbolise rain with good things, you usually symbolise it with bad things. This could be useful when deciding to film our video if we wanted to film in the rain to have that negative effect. In the background, old creepy music was being played. This has a good effect on the audience because there is tension and makes the audience feel like something is going to happen real soon.
At the start of creep, the setting was in a dark wet tunnel. The atmosphere was quite scary to start with as the picture on screen is really dark and there is a long shot on the miners who you can’t clearly see. There is no background noise which adds suspense to the scene. Meaning nothing is going on. When the old man is attacked, the camera is on the attacker for a split second which makes the audience try and think who it is or what it is. This could also be another good thing to add to our piece which adds extra tension as well as the spooky music. Together the two elements will ensure you have a well planned out piece of filming and editing, resulting in a good film in the end.
After watching both films, it is easy to compare the differences between the two. The obvious big hitter is the villain or bad guy. There is always one of these in a horror or gangster film because that’s the convention of the film. Another feature I noticed is the background music. In both of the films the music was very similar in the way that both sets of music was creepy in a way that makes the audience believe that something dodgy is about to happen around the corner. This is a good feature to have because it creates a lot of suspense and tension.