Our Recreation of scenes from horror movies

Our task was to recreate iconic scenes from four different horror films all of which used different camera techniques and conventions to scare the audience. We all had a chance to use the camcorders to familiarise ourselves the different ways to film a shot. I filmed the third scene in the task, which was the Halloween scene when a hand held shot is filmed to give the illusion that the audience is seeing what’s happening though the eyes of the character. In this case it was the little boy who ended up stabbing his older sister to death. When I filmed the scene, I realised that it was a lot harder then it looked. I learnt that I had to ensure that my body moved in tune with movement of my hand to get the realism in the hand held shot. Adding music to our scenes sing adobe premiere gave scary effect and enhanced the professionalism of the scene. Unfortunately due to poor lighting the quality of out last scene from “Faculty” was not clear and didn’t look as good as we predicted which made it difficult for the audience to understand what was happening. Overall this task allowed me to understand that In order to make a good scene work well, every element in important from lighting to sound effects.