Analysing a film of chosen genre.

I chose to watch the film The Descent which is in the genre of horror which is what we have chosen to do in our coursework. It starts by us hearing a muffled humming sound which is non diegetic. we then see a moving spotlight effect appear reading the name of the production and distribution company as the woprds appear they sloly dissappear as the next set com up. this creates a very scary effect alongside the non diegetic music. we then cut into a high angle shot showing a clear blue sky with the surroundings of trees. at the same time we can hear the diegetic sound of laughing and shouting, we then have a midshot showing a group of women in a boat going through somw rapids. afterwards we have low angle pannig to show the rapids that are next, these look very firece which immediatley tmakes us think that something is going to happen here. whilst the women are moving down to the next set of rapids we cut to a mid shot agin showing a man and a little girl stood on a rock, the little girl then goes on to ionform us that she is the daughter to one of the women. we know this as she shouts down ',ummy.. mummy!' and waves to her.

After we have been introduced into all the characters we then see another low angle shot of the women in the boat getting closer and closer towrds the rough rapids, by using a high angle shot it makes the father and daughter look as though they are stood on a very high rock. throughout the whole of this first section we have the diegetic sound of the waves constantly running. following tjhis we have a very quick cut to a close up and panning of all the womens faces as they look very scared but also excited and are screaming as the go through the rapids. after this we have a midshot from the side of the boat showing them as they have reached the end of the rapids and the close up is ther for us to estinguish the fact that they are relieved its over. we then again have a mid shot as the girls paddle the boat back into where the father and daughter is, at this point we have the titles of all the main actors within the film come up again using theme format of a spotlight effect that dissappears. we then have another midshot but this time showing the girls getting back and also the father getting the girl down off of the rock. at this point we have the non diegetic music playing which is quite calm and relaxing, over the top of this we have the diegetic sound of the women laughing and chatting to eachother. after the women have got out of the boat and are on the rocks we see a close up of the little girl and her mum hugging whilst the dad is helping one of the other women take her helmet off. the mother of the girl looks over and sees him doing this and lloks very worried. this immediatley triggers enigma codes to the audience that something is happening between them and that their marraige is unstable.

We then cut to a mid shot from a fade showing a car travelling down a windy road, as the car moves the camera starys in the same spot to give the effect that the car is moving further away. we then have a cut to inside the car where the mother and daughter are tlaking about planning a birthday oarty, whilst this is ahppening there are sharp cuts to show the fathers face, we get the idea that he is anooyed or fed up just by looking at the expressions he uses. at the same time we still have all the titles appearing but now they are just plain white writing with a fade in and out. whilst the parents are talking we have a over the shoulder shot showing the sides of their faces but also the road in front and as they approach the top of a hill we see a van coming towards them. we theh have a midshot showing the 2 cars colliding and some metal poles coming from the van, these poles shoot towards the car and go straight through the windscreen and through the head of the husband and little girl. There is a lot of blood and screaming in this short sectionm which is typical iconography of the horror genre. we then have a close up of the 2 cars which leads into a slow fade out showing a birds eye ve=iew of the accident. at this point there is no sound apart from a buzzig noise.

we then have a slow cut to a black screen which leads to a muffled picture and a zoom in of a little girl blowing out candles on a cake, which triggers enigma as to who this girl is and what its all about. we then have a cut to the moter lying ion a hospital bed waking from a nightmare, which reveals that the girl was her daughter. we also hear the sound of the hospital machines beeping, as we see the women removing her canulars from her wrists. we then see a long shot of the women in her nighgown in a very little lit corridoor, it doesnt look a very nice place to be in the night and just by looking at it you know that something is going to happen. again there is the buzzing sound still being use and around the outside of the frame there is a thin black outline bloacking out some of the shot, this balck outline is fuzzy and flashes on and off very slightly throughout the next scene, this adds to the horror effect as it is very mysterious and disturbing. the next section happens very quickly which helps quicken the pace of the story and reflects the state that the women is in and alsmost shows what her heart will be doing at this point. we start to see lights going off at the bottom end of the corridoor and as the women starts to run away the lights start to go out quickler and catch up with her, as she is running we can hear the diegetic sound of her panting and also the non diegetic sound of screeches and buzzing which makes the atmosphere for the audience very uncomfortable. as the women is running we revert to a over the shoulder long shot to see her getting towards the end of the corridor where eventually it goes pitch black. we then her a very high pitched scream as she gets to the other end of the corridoor and looks like she is still running, but runs into the arms of one of her friends, we then have thre non diegetic music being played which is very sad and emotional as the women and her friend sink to the floor both crying. we then have a fade out into a black screen where the title of the film 'The Descent' appears in very odd writing and the spotlight effect is also used again