Why Do I Like What I Like?
I like a multitude of genre's including action, horror, comedy, and even dramas but for my film I plan on going into the horror genre. Now it was mainly between action and horror. An action film caught my eye because I would really enjoy to film a fight scene yet I do not think that it is the best idea because I would rather make a compelling and well-thought out story and I believe I can accomplish that through a horror film. I really enjoy horror films because I love the feeling of suspense that comes with them. The stories usually follow some sort of entity and not although yes it could be slightly repetitive I still enjoy and think these stories are well though are because it feels as though I am watching something new every time. Now I'm not saying every horror film is like this just a lot of them. I think the idea of an entity is portrayed really well though as the characters that surround the rest of the story are also very complex and that's what I would like to establish inn. my short-film.
A good horror film that I think is absolutely fantastic with its characters and story is "Get Out" directed by Jordan Peele. The link below is a clip from Get Out that is extremely significant to the story overall.
This clip shows a lot of complexity within the characters. To begin, with sound the dialogue between our main character Chris Washington and Aroki Tanaka shows the importance that race has within this story as Tanaka asks Chris how the African American experience and if its a advantage or disadvantage this is followed by an uncomfortable silence as that is a very unusual question for someone to ask. This by the end of the story is very easily understandable though. Furthermore the mise-en-scene helps with the uncomfortable scene that we are in as another African American character walks in and discusses the experience for the main character yet he seems to be off. The main character obviously notices this and takes a picture of him with flash and that flash takes him out of his hypnosis and he then tells Chris to "Get Out." This shows us that there is something supernatural going on here and it even helps foreshadow that it is in Chris's ideal to escape because something is obviously off. Now for cinematography there is one main thing that catches my eye and it is that when the camera is on Chris who is our African American protagonist it is in a one shot just showing him but when it shows everyone else it is just everyone else in a master shot. Now this represents that he is extremely outnumbered and that he is the only African American there. Now this changes because when the other African American man shows up with his white wife it is a two shot when he is talking, including him and his wife this shows that he is still relatively alone in his ethnicity. Now when the man is snapped out of his hypnosis he becomes himself again and it is a one-shot of him so now he is in the same position as Chris. These difference in shots just show how race plays a big part in this film and that Chris is extremely outnumbered. Lastly, with editing there is fast cuts when the man is telling Chris to get out to help show how that scene went down as you can see all the angles and it even shows the intensity of the scene as it works with the unsettling music playing in the background. Now all of these together help convey a overall motif of race as not only in this scene is race a huge player but throughout the whole story race is a very big idea of this movie. Now mise-en-scene cinematography, sound, and editing work together to help show race in this movie and even make this movie quite scary with its supernatural aspects, the unsettling music, the complex dialog, and even the uncanny story of hypnosis.
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