WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS AND LANGUAGE OF A SUPERNATURAL FILM? DO YOU THINK "THE SIXTH SENSE" IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A SUPERNATURAL FILM?

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“THE SIXTH SENSE”

WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS AND LANGUAGE OF A SUPERNATURAL FILM? DO YOU THINK “THE SIXTH SENSE” IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF A SUPERNATURAL FILM?

There are different kinds of genres in films. An example of this is going to be something like horror or a thriller, a supernatural is another one. A supernatural film has to have build up of tension to grab the audience’s attention, also a bit of mystery to let the audience feel they are involved and are made to feel they are solving some sort of a case. The music in supernatural films mostly tends to have drums maybe string instruments and silence to create contrast and heighten the dramatic elements of the story.

The audience expect a supernatural film to be an unusual film, a wild mysterious film. A preview of a supernatural film should attract the audience's eyes straight away. The audience of supernatural films expect the film to be  in some cases even unnatural, for example about the afterlife and the living communicating with the dead. Another example of a supernatural film is “Final Destination” this is a supernatural film because it uses the idea of ‘if you cheat death it will come back after you’ but in reality it can't be proven. A director of supernatural films uses the camera to make the film more realistic, an example of this camera use will be a point of view shot; a point of view shot puts you in the position of the character for example in “The Sixth Sense” when the history teacher looks down at Cole in his history classroom. This makes Cole look small and vulnerable. A director uses dark lighting to put the audience in the mood that he/she wants them to be. “The Sixth Sense” is set in Philadelphia because it emphasizes the fact that this is where early American history took place and it is a perfect place to set the mood of the idea of life after death as its history provides the narrative with many ghosts.

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The director of ‘The Sixth Sense’ which is Shaymalan put his ideas in a way that got people thinking about their own ideas about life after death but his idea is that people don’t rest in peace when they die because there is something unfulfilled in their life. Shaymalan thinks this because he has been interested in the supernatural since he was a little child this is because he was bought up listening to ghost stories.‘The Sixth Sense’ was very popular and topped up the u.s box office chart it is so successful because it has a major twist ...

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