The camera then draws our attention to a girl dancing who is dressed in all white, while everyone else in dressed in dark coloured clothing. Whilst this girl is dancing, the speed of the clip is doubled and there are quick fades to white and then back to the girl. This tells the audience that this girl is an important character, and may even play an important role latter part of the film.
The camera then cuts to a medium close-up of the girl in white dancing, which is now in slow motion.
There is then a cut to a man who has just entered the nightclub. This is the character that the filmmakers want us to identify with, and they achieve this through many ways. One of the ways we learn to identify with this character is through many close-up shots of him. This makes us question why the filmmakers have chosen this specific character for us to identify with.
We then start to get the feeling that something is wrong in the nightclub when everyone starts to watch the man strangely. Our feeling that something is wrong is assured when a man barges the character we are identifying with and then gives him a cold stare. When this happens a point of view shot is used, which allows us to identify with the character even more. We begin to question why everyone is acting weird around this man. We also start to feel uneasy because we are identifying with the character and start to feel unsafe, as if something is about to happen.
The camera then cuts to a shot of the man’s hand, which has a drop of blood on it. While this shot is taking place another drop of blood falls onto the man’s hand. Although we don’t know for sure it is blood because no one has said it, we get a strong feeling it is by the way the man looks at it. Everyone around the man then reaches their hands out into the air as if reaching up for something, which gives us the feeling that everyone apart from the man (and us) know something that we don’t.
The man then slowly draws his head up, and the camera begins to tilt upwards slowly revealing the ceiling. The lighting then begins to get brighter and the music louder, which increase our suspense. Now that the lighting has become brighter we can see signs saying ‘Blood Bath’. This sign then assures our assumptions about the red liquid on the man’s hand being blood. This alarms us and makes us feel insecure, because we are worried about what will happen to the character we are identifying with.
Now that I have concluded my research I know now how and what techniques I can carry forward to my practical production.
