Settings can

unfamiliar to make
the characters and
Shadows on people’s faces signify audience feel uneasy
secrecy. In our film, we chose to have and alone. There are
the masked man in darkness, which is Cabin
many examples such
eerie and contrasts the normality of Fever as Cabin Fever
the protagonist in the kitchen. (2002, Eli Roth) or TV
programmes like
Lighting can be controlled Places can also be
to create tension. The use familiar such as the
of darkness can make home (e.g. Scream,
someone feel isolated 2002 Craven) which

lighting
and uneasy or look allows for a normal
sinister, e.g. man at equilibrium to be
mise-en-scene disrupted by an
outside influence

genre
Costumes and props can connote
Lincoln Rhyme different moods, e.g. the use of red
in The Bone in our opening sequence signifies
Collector (1999) murder and danger.

Cross in Along
characters camera work
Protagonist –
Came a uncovering mysteries
Spider (2001) + solving problems

Meg Altman in
Panic Room Different types of shots
(2002) Antagonist – Thriller and horror create different
Clarice preventing the movies tend to use atmospheres e.g. a WS
Starling in protagonist from tilted shots which connotes isolation,
Silence of the restoring equilibrium distort view, whereas an ECU or CU
Lambs (1991) signifying that indicates claustrophobic,
Mills in nervous atmosphere like
Myers in Taken
something strange is
the shot in Dark Summer
Halloween (2008) of the babysitter running
(1978) Stanfield upstairs.
in Firewall
(2006)