Horror Clip Personal Response

                                     Horror Clip Personal Response

In our horror film clip sequence it started off as a long shot outside the college entrance. The shot then turned into a zoom up shot on the college sign, this is for the purpose of setting the scene so the audience know where the film is mainly going to be set. The camera shot then goes on to have views of inside the college. This is also the time you begin to see people in the shots, showing it is going to  be based around maybe a teenage horror, therefor making the film appeal to its target audience of teenagers aged 15 upwards. However in these shots a face is never shown which creates a sense of mystery, especially with the non-diegetic music in the background which creates a tense feeling as you are left in suspense in very early stages of the clip.

Further into the clip you being to see the sequence of the story line. A masked murderer set in the college. Through out the clip you begin to see more appearances from the masked murderer. You first see it in a medium close up shot coming from behind the door. By you being able to see the murderer but the other characters not seeing it makes it frustrating for you as you want them to know. It again creates suspense as you are waiting to see if the murderer is going to do anything or not.

In the next part of the clip you see a scene where two students come through the door and then a flip shot to the masked murderer, who then is shown to start beginning to chase them down the stairs. With this sequence so far and the non-diegetic music in the background constantly building up makes you feel on edge and scared as you want to know if the masked murderer is going to kill them or not. However this is then confused by how then the clip in a long shot shows ,through character point of view, that in fact the masked murderer has disappeared. This creates mystery within the sequence. Mystery is again reinforced with the idea of the villain in this case being masked, this makes you feel enticed  as you want to watch until the end to see if they are ever unmasked or not.

The clip then concentrates on the idea of  'hunting' down the masked murderer. Through out the rest of the clip is flip shots of different locations. When each location is shown in variety of shots it leaves you feeling very intense as the locations are shown in quite eary ways. For example the corridor shot is very isolated with the non-diegetic music still playing in the background, this feeling is made emphasised by the shadow shot. In a long shot that then turns into a medium shot you see a persons shadow reflecting on the wall. This makes you feel worried as you aren't sure whether it is the masked murderer or the shadow of the heroetic characters? creating an on going element of suspense.

In the final shot of the clip is a shot outdoors. In a tracking shot you are again being shown very isolated areas. The previous areas shot are cut very quickly however in this last shot more attention has been shown, this could suggest that the masked murderer is close to being found or some sort of mystery about the sequence is about to be discovered. The main focus is set on the spiral stair case. The lighting in this shot is quite low key lighting, looking very glumly and droopy associating it with the feelings of sadness and loneliness. But also the feeling of the unknown. As the long shot of the staircase stays in contact with this scene for a long period of time compared to the others makes you think something dramatic is about to happen, leaving you feeling scared at the last moment as the sequence comes to an end.