How to make an effective movie
To make an scary horror film, we need to use some different effects. The effects can be very simple or very complex, but the use of them will scare the pants off our audience. We have come up with an list of each effect as well as why you would need it specifically.
Here is that list:
Here is that list:
To make an effective movie, we will need:
- Scary music: It needs to build up suspense. The use of silence is very effective before a dramatic moment.
- Hints towards the killer: That you don't personally see the killer. You get hints about who they could be.
- Suspense: This comes in music and what happens in the scene. You think that something will happen...
- Toying with the audience: The use of camera is very effective when doing this. It can make the audience think that there is something unnatural around every corner.
- Having the location in the middle of nowhere: Then there is nowhere for the victim to run and there is no-one there to hear their screams. Old buildings, like castles, are also very good in being scary because they are stereotypically thought of as being haunted.
- The weather: Horrors tend to happen in dark, foul weather. It adds to the suspense. Fog is also very good in crating the illusion of eeriness.
- Ambient sounds: For example, crickets because they add to the scene by making the audience think even more that they are in the middle of nowhere due to there being only crickets around.
- From Shakespeare's plays we get the theory that when nature or families are not perfect - something going to go wrong.
RD