Genre Research: It Chapter Two
After watching It Chapter Two, we noticed a variety of elements that umbrella the horror genre. This movie had tracking shots, point of view shots, tilts, pans, and close ups. We all enjoyed the close ups and tracking shots because it created a chilling suspense towards it. Whenever the clown was making an appearance the close up on him made it very frightening. For example, when Bill was stuck in the House of Mirrors at the carnival with the clown the close ups made it very scary. As you saw the clown repeatedly bang is head into the mirrors vividly, it drew my attention and made us feel as if we were apart of the movie. The fear really creeps in when you believe you are in that character's position. Additionally when It the clown arrives there is always a non diegetic sound that associates with him. As the audience when that sound plays you know he is about to arrive. We did enjoy this because it makes you want to protect the characters in the movie when that song arrives. As for the pan and tilt it gave a good summary of the setting. When another scene was going to occur the pan and tilt introduced the viewers to the next setting. Without all of these elements the movie would seem very lifeless and not feel like a horror film. When it came to the dark lightning since the contrast was not very extreme the surprising scares made it even more thrilling. Not being able to see what will come at you can create that nervousness in the audience, making the scene very dramatic. As the audience we really want to incorporate these elements as we want to make our audience feel what we felt. Although the whole point of a horror is too create frightening content, we do not want to include anything that is too gory and could possibly be unappealing to our viewers. In the movie when there were close ups, they usually showed very bloody imagery that could drive an audience away.
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