Sleepy Hollow and Frankenstein are both films from the gothic horror genre. Sleepy Hollow is 1999 period horror film directed by Tim Burton interpreting The Legend Of The Headless Horseman

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Coursework                                        Media Coursework                                Tuesday 8th July 2008

Sleepy Hollow and Frankenstein are both films from the gothic horror genre. Sleepy Hollow is 1999 period horror film directed by Tim Burton interpreting The Legend Of The Headless Horseman and based loosely around the Washington Irving story The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow written in 1820 whereas Frankenstein is a film made in 1994 directed by Kenneth Branagh but the novel was written in 1818 by Mary Shelley when she was about nineteen to twenty years old. Both of these stories were written and filmed at around the same time. Sleepy Hollow is centres on a police constable Inchabod Crane sent from New York City to investigate a series of murders in the village of Sleepy Hollow by a mysterious Headless Horseman. Inchabod Crane is seen as an outsider to both the town of Sleepy Hollow and his counterparts in New York City. Frankenstein or “The Modern Prometheus” is centred on the scientist Victor Frankenstein who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of a man, but larger than average and more powerful.

Sleepy Hollow features a lot of famous actors such as Johnny Depp who plays Inchabod Crane in sleepy Hollow and who also stars as Sweeney Todd recently in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street. The film Sleepy Hollow also stars Christina Ricci who plays Katrina Van Tassel who also stars as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family in 1991 and Sleepy Hollow also stars Michael Gambon who plays as Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix in 2007. These films are all in the gothic horror genre, which would mean that these actors would act more or less the same as they would act in Sleepy Hollow, which would make it an easy role for the actors to play.

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The main similarity of Frankenstein and Sleepy Hollow is that they were written at the time of the industrial revolution so this meant that the authors would think and imagine of writing about new tools and scientific studies such as the “scientific tools” used by Inchabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow and the “scientific study” of scientist Victor Frankenstein about bringing dead organisms back to life.

In this essay I will be analysing the camerawork, the sound, the editing and the Mis-En-Scene used in Frankenstein and Sleepy Hollow.

In this section I will be explaining the camerawork used ...

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