Analysis - The Hills Have Eyes
When analysing horror/thriller films, i came across this film that relates to one of my questions in the questionnaire. The opening in this film relates back to past events and the effects they caused at the time, alongside the opening credits. By doing this, the director is setting the background to follow as the film plays, the audience having to follow the opening closely as the rest of the film is based on the beginning. This is a good technique to use when creating a film, as the audience interacts with the film, enabling them to concentrate and watch on so they can work out what the relation is.
The clip is fast paced so the audience would have to watch carefully. The director has done this so that it follows a convention of a thriller, showing the genre of this film immediately. Some shots are in colour whilst others are in black and white or sepia tone to show that the event that we are watching, happened in the past. We see the nuclear bomb and the effects it has no the people. The audience feels uncomfortable when given close up shots of the disformed humans affected by the explosion. There are flashes of lights from the bomb and the explosions taking place in each short shot, so the lighting here, plays a big part in creating the atmosphere of the openign scene of this thriller.
We are approached with a shot of deformed babies in jars that then changes to a negative shot. This is a good effect as it shows the audience two ways of looking at the abnormality, adding to the perculiar shot that we see. Again, we see repeated images of the abnormally shaped humans that were affected by the bomb, making the audience feel put off by the images they are seeing. The director has done this to add to the strangeness of the opening, giving an effect of eeriness to the film, before we are able to know about the main story line in the present.
When analysing horror/thriller films, i came across this film that relates to one of my questions in the questionnaire. The opening in this film relates back to past events and the effects they caused at the time, alongside the opening credits. By doing this, the director is setting the background to follow as the film plays, the audience having to follow the opening closely as the rest of the film is based on the beginning. This is a good technique to use when creating a film, as the audience interacts with the film, enabling them to concentrate and watch on so they can work out what the relation is.
The clip is fast paced so the audience would have to watch carefully. The director has done this so that it follows a convention of a thriller, showing the genre of this film immediately. Some shots are in colour whilst others are in black and white or sepia tone to show that the event that we are watching, happened in the past. We see the nuclear bomb and the effects it has no the people. The audience feels uncomfortable when given close up shots of the disformed humans affected by the explosion. There are flashes of lights from the bomb and the explosions taking place in each short shot, so the lighting here, plays a big part in creating the atmosphere of the openign scene of this thriller.
We are approached with a shot of deformed babies in jars that then changes to a negative shot. This is a good effect as it shows the audience two ways of looking at the abnormality, adding to the perculiar shot that we see. Again, we see repeated images of the abnormally shaped humans that were affected by the bomb, making the audience feel put off by the images they are seeing. The director has done this to add to the strangeness of the opening, giving an effect of eeriness to the film, before we are able to know about the main story line in the present.
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