The Woman in Black

The Woman in Black Mise-en-scene

 

In the Woman in Black the director make the scene of Kipps in the house seem very scary. He does this by making the amount of colour on the house and the weather very limited. Its mainly grey and black and dull looking. In the beginning of the film Arthur Kipps wife (Stella Kipps) dies and so the film has a very sad atmosphere.

 

The island that Kipps is travelling too is isolated from everyone else; it is separated from he mainland by a causeway that can flood, making him seem alone. On the way too the island he passes a grave marker that signifies death.

 

Kipps facial expression is very plain and sometimes looks sad. The cemetery is overgrown and looks like nobody is looking after it. This also signifies death.

 

The camera angle of the house is a low one. It make the house look powerful and grand. When Arthur enters the house there is a high camera angle. This makes him seem weak and vulnerable. He is wearing all black and is standing in a door way when the woman in black appears behind him. The low lighting in the house makes it seem dull and bleak.

Generic elements in The Exorcist

How do generic elements encourage the audience to anticipate events in the attic scene in The Exorcist?

 

• At night
• Its dark
• Isolated victim
• Young-ish female, attractive victim
• Vulnerable dressed
• Lights don't work-lights candle
• Noises in the attic
• Cluttered confined space
• The entrance to the attic is black
• No music-audience listens too
• Tension drops when man enters with torch, speaking and company
• Bar shadows suggest she is trapped

 





 



Importance of genre

The importance of genre is so the film has a category. Many people like many different genres and so it is good for the thousands of films made to be categorised.

Genre is constituted by ' specific systems of expectation and hypothesis which spectators bring with them to the cinema and which interact with the films themselves during the course of the viewing process.

Much of the viewers like the experience and having a specific category that relates to them.

Genre boundaries

 

Genre boundaries are when two genres mix in one film. For example in Star Wars, this is where science fiction and action meet. The spaceships and hover crafts create the sci-fi effect and the destruction along with death make up the action aspect.

 

 

Another example is with the television prison break. This mixes action, crime and romance all in the same show. There are also other films that mix more than two or three.



Different type of settings, characters and plots for a horror story

 

With every type of genre there is always a difference in setting, character and plot. For example in a horror film. Usually in horror films the setting is in an abandoned building or somewhere isolated, surrounded by fog or a dense forest. This gives the viewer the feeling something is hiding in the darkness.

Characters in horrors are normally very vulnerable people. For example in the film the woman in black, a man is put into a desolated house, alone, and left to fend the ghost himself. This also make the viewer feel vulnerable and alone.

A classic plot for a horror film: A car is driving down a dirt road with a single person at the wheel. The car breaks down and the car will not restart. A light is in the distance and he moves towards it.

 



What is genre?

Genre is the category or type of a film. For example, Terminator 2 is a sci-fi film. This is shown by robots, robotic scans and teleporting. Other types of genre include: western, romance, action, adventure, horror, crime and many more! My favourite type of genre is action or crime

 

 

             

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