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SHORT OF THE WEEK ANALYSIS

KEY FEATURES Complete the sections below, add screengrabs to help


illustrate your findings.
NARRATIVE When you watch a horror, you can expect to see slow builds of
tension, and this does just that using the silence mixed with
How does the story sound effects with a face of fear to really push forth impact of the
conform to what you’d jump scare
expect to see in a horror?

MISE EN SCENE When we start, we’re in a living room and we can see a typical
living room, with the table the painting and the windows however
What mise en scene is the chairs are here they’re positioned like we’re in a therapist’
being used to convey room (facing opposite)
meaning? Is it
conventional to what you
expect to see?
CINEMATOGRAPHY The protagonist is portrayed as someone with blindness with light
perception so someone different with the cinematography was
What cinematography is that they used a lot of gaussian blur slowing us to see the vague
being used to convey figure of someone, definitely someone different for POV shots.
meaning? Is it
conventional to what you
expect to see?
AUDIO The audio tends to start before the jump scare to build up
tension.
What do you note about Also, sometimes fake jump scares are used which may be a cup
the music and sound falling or a cat meow for example.
effects being used to help
support the visual and
narrative features?
SYNTHESIS After watching this it is making me think about how I want to
structure my work which is a good thing to think about especially
What can you take from in a horror when you need to pace properly.
the film, has it inspired
you with certain ideas?

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