Film Name: What Lies Beneath
Sub Genre: Ghost Thriller
Certificate: 15
Camera Angles: The camera is used cleverly through out the film. Buy placing the camera in different positions and angles through out the film it creates a feeling of suspense for the audience. For example in one scene the actress is approaching the bath slowly and the camera is following her, because of the speed of the cameras movement it creates tension and makes the audience still stay engaged with what is going to happen next.
Lighting: In the film the lighting doesn’t make any tension or create a scarier effect. Mainly through out the film its just natural lighting apart from a few scenes where its dark as there’s a few scenes out side. With the dark lighting outside it does give the viewer a sense of fear, as dark lighting makes everything scarier.
Music/Sound: Like in every horror film there is some high pitched sounds to create a dramatic feeling for the viewer. When the ‘scary’ scenes came on in the film, taunting music tends to be played to higher the suspense for the viewers, and this was definitely used in the film. The music used in the opening sets the scene for the rest of the film for the audience, I think its important to choose the right type of music for the opening as you don’t want to give the audience the wrong type of assumption on what the film will be like.
Location/Setting/Props: The film was set in America. With a married couple living in a large old American style house. With a traditional fishing lake in the same grounds, and a forest type area within the area. This isn’t surprising as it is a typical horror film set. The house itself that it is filmed in is huge, which also creates fear as you cant see every part of it which makes you think about what could be there. Location and setting is the main concern when it comes to filming, as it is the main aspect that causes an atmosphere! There weren’t very many props used in the film to be honest, and the ones that were used didn’t really add to the atmosphere.
Genre/Fear: I think that our sub genre of ghost thriller is shown very well in the film 'What Lies Beneath' however i feel that it wasnt portrayed as well as it could have been. Even though the effects that they used were good, it wasnt very convincing and believeble. I think that the scariest part of the film was the scene where the main character is in the house alone and can see and feel the spirit within the house, possesing what she's doing. I think this is the scariest scene becuase the music and the way that its filmed makes it scary. Also there is a part where you can see the ghost's reflection in the bath and that is also a very scary part in the film!
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