Zeeshan Farid
Select three scenes from ‘Frankenstein’ which show the film belongs to the horror genre.
Frankenstein was a novel written by Mary Shelley in 1832. At the time when ‘Frankenstein’ was written gothic novels were very popular and so this novel was seen to be very popular. In 1994 the ‘Frankenstein’ novel was turned into a movie by Kenneth Branagh, starring Kenneth Branagh himself as Victor Frankenstein. The film used many techniques that make a film become part of the horror genre. Such as Music and sound, language, weather, violence, color, special effects, camera angles and symbolism. I have studied three scenes of the film in class. These scenes have all the information we need to know about horror and what makes this film belong to the horror genre. In this assignment I am going to show how the film Frankenstein belongs to the horror genre.
The first scene begins in the artic where a ship is caught in a bad storm and all the men are panicking. The scene uses lots of different techniques to build up horror. It uses the music and lightning to go with the picture and terror. They use fast, loud and exciting music to show the panic of the people on the ship. There are fast close up and distance camera shots. The uncontrollable situation goes with the music and brings up excitement into the picture. The panic and tension in this scene is brought by the storm, lighting and the large waves created by the sea, which causes the ship to go of course. You can see fear on the faces of the crewmembers. The captain of the ship is very determined and his ambition forces the crewmembers to obey his commands. They know they can’t last long in this blizzard. Many lives are taken in the storm and this shows concern and misery on the faces of those who are left.
