textual analysis 3 (chloe)

ive chose a movie of the horror genre,
creep.

at the start there is some 'spooky' like music, the camera is out of focus and zoomed in on a yellow object as the credits start to appear, it then zooms in ans out whilst going in and out of focus, and changes object such as a knife is present at one point, the use of the unfocused camera could suggest confusion and keeps the audiance interested. the screen then goes black and a number of credits come up in the centre of the screen, with slight jogging movement. the music is really eery and is quite typical of the codes and conventions featured withing the horror genre along with the dark lighting and use of black. the music continues to play as the camera goes back to unfocusing and focuses on various objects untill it focuses on some blood on the floor and a girls crying voice can faintly be heard.

inbetween credits coming up and the camera resuming to the blood and the girl unfocused the camera is very unstable in its self, reflecting the unstability of the characters or the situation. the lighting remains very dark. the camera then goes into a mid shot of a girl which is slighty unfocused as the girl is frantically moving her head around and is in obvious distress! the girl is also crying and making noise whilst the music is still there to give the movie that horror feel to it.

the title of the film then comes up and the location is switched to a sewer where a convo is taking place with two men, the lighting is very dark and you can just about make out the torch lights at the end, the mucis has now stopped and the camera is in full focus. the camera remains like that for a long period of time as the people walk towards the camera.

creeps opening sequence was typical of a horror movie, making the audiance want to know more, like any film but the use of lighting and dark colours emphasises this as sometimes the audiance struggle to actually see what is going on at the start of this film, the film uses a number of codes and conventions in order to drag the audiance in and the camera angles and movements reinforce this.