Anxiety: “Distress or uneasiness of mind caused by fear of danger or misfortune.”
Tension: “Mental or emotional strain; intense, suppressed suspense, anxiety, or excitement.”
Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) - Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Looking down the lens
- Low budget
- Loud, accentuated real audio
- Breathing clear the whole way through - this is very poignant and I think will work really well for lights
- Mirror shot
- Camera is like someone’s view point (POV) jerky, looking at an important object like the audience is another person bringing them in and building tension.
- Quick cuts
- Repetitive sounds
- Music builds tension, then suddenly cuts
- Close up of face, centred
- After killing goes to a party - juxtaposition
- Extreme wides - could work for Jessica running with light bulbs
- Nice use of silence alongside movement
- Lots of shots of hands
- Movement in most of the shots
- Changing pace - fast to slow
- Repetition - need to repeat things like the tapping and turning bracelet in lights
- Suppressed emotion
- Very moving monologue - this will work well for lights too
- Repeats hiding the gun in front of the mirror and hiding the knife in front of the mirror
- Music with a heartbeat rhythm to it
- Something there, look away, look back and it has gone
- Pan to reveal something
- Slow track and tilt to show them on the floor/street below
Red Riding Hood (2011) - Catherine Hardwicke
- Lots of dark scenes
- ‘Watching’ shots, from a distance
- Implying she is being watched
- Tension building music
- Heightened breathing
- Nice colour grade
- Great use of lighting, especially at night
- Lots of close up of eyes
- Quick cuts
The Woman in Black (2012) - James Watkins
- Lots of mist used - scary unknown ahead
- Slow paced most of the film and then get quicker at the scary parts - builds up tension really well
- Silence used really effectively
- Freaky objects - dolls and children toys
- De saturated colour grade
- The scary bits happen mostly at night when he cannot get away
- The flashs of shadows work really well and make the audience jump. This could work for the ‘monster’ in lights
- Things appear near him that the audience can see and he can’t.This could also be a good technique that would work for lights
- Sound is key to building tension in this film
- Things move suddenly and make you jump
Memento (2000) - Christopher Nolan
- Slow paced
- Makes the audience think about the story
- Black and white and colour for different times - the story going in different directions
- Clues as you go along
- The audience is finding things out as he does, draws them in to the film
- Tattoos to remember things
- The fact that he does not know what has happened builds tension and anxiety
- Are people lying to him?
- The pace works really well
- Nice use of flashbacks
Visual Styles
Food (2011) - Jonathan Van Tulleken
The colour grade of this ‘coming up’ programme would work really well for lights, it is de-saturated and looks almost inky with lots of blue tones. The use of light in dark parts is really effective. Extreme close ups with shallow depth of field would add a great look for the repetitive shots of the bracelet etc.
Home (2011) - Baff Akoto
Another ‘coming up’ programme that I think the style of will work well for lights, the use of shallow depth of field with lights blurred in the background is really effective amoung other things.
Misfits (2009) - Howard Overman
As well as being a massive fan of the content of this TV series I am also love the way it looks. It was one of the first TV dramas to use the de-saturated colour grade with lots of contrast and very shallow depth of field. The dark bluey inky tone of the shadows contrasted against the oranges in the jumpsuits makes a really great colour pallete, I think blue and orange/yellow of the street lamps could work for lights. If I manage to produce a piece just a fraction as good as this visually I will be happy.
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