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GHOST SHIP
This film has the genre of horror, you can infer this by just the word 'ghost' in the title. Most movies portray ghosts in horror films because they are unexplained and unknown to us, so are used. It is set in a huge ship, in the middle of an ocean with no land nearby to make you see there's no help and there alone. It was set in the evening to set the stage as a horror, it looks cloudy and mysterious in the sea. At the start of film everyone is dancing and having fun,laughing,which makes it look too perfect and like something is bound to go wrong. Everyone there is adults and have the same age range and class, apart from a young girl who is frequently shown in the opening. Her being the only young girl makes you see the difference quite easily. And it later becomes clear she is the only survivor on the boat, as everyone else gets chopped apart with a wire, the build up to it is clear as the serious sound affects happen as things take a turn.
HARRY BROWN
The film harry brown has a few genre types:action,crime drama, and thriller. You can tell at the begging there's bound to be a lot of crime going on as there's a gang down an alley in the dark acting mysteriously and speaking with slang and swearing. As soon as the prop of a gun comes out you can see there will be crime. You don't really know what is going on in it because of the dark scene. The characters seem very young and like they have no class or feelings. They are presented as if they are all that. As soon as these people start shooting at a young women in a park with her baby, in day light.It becomes clear that they have targeted a vulnerable person with no defence and after killing her it can only seem to progress worse. In till unexpectedly they get hit by a lorry trying to run away. And ends in a cliff hanger making you wonder what will happen next.
CLUELESS
In this film opening everything sounds happy, the music playing is happy and lifting and shows a party of young teenagers. It is hard to infer what the film is going to be like or what the genre is just by this, but typically it looks like a high school drama as in this the two girls are driving off to school. The weather looks good and the scene doesn't infer anything bad. The characters in this are all wealthy, rich, and very high class. They have big houses and what seems a very easy life, especially for the girl. This girl looks like she gets everything she wants like the jeep, and it is is significant because most people would not have a jeep because they cant afford it and its to over the top for someone so young. Her life just seems so perfect.
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
In this film everything starts off so happy and upbeat with the man dancing around looking happy. This man does not fit the scene. The setting is dark and mysterious, which makes us feel uncomfortable and like things are about to go wrong, so when we see that he is listening to music and seems happy we can tell something is up. The scene doesn't match the characters feelings that that atmosphere would normally give to you. Especially when creatures start coming out from the darkness that look very harmful, but he kicks them away and doesn't seem bothered. This here is building his character as a strong man. The film genre seems to be sc-fi but also with some aspects of fantasy, as his man appears to be living on another planet apart from earth. There also seems to be a comedy side of it, at the beginning because its funny. This builds the character as strong and we can see that he is physically fit, and well looked after.
WHAT LIES BENEATH
In this movie you can tell straight away it is an horror. At first you can see that when steam seems to be coming out from her bathroom, that this lady is scared and worried what is happening. As a scene builds up you can begin to hear the scary sound affects as if something is about to pop up and scare you. This build up causes tension for the audience. The scene is set in this women's house, where she is supposed to feel comfortable and safe so when we see that she isn't it automatically shows this is bound to be a horror. As something gets written on the mirror, it seems so mysterious as we cant see what is doing this and what it wants. The message answers the women's question but not normally which makes it very mysterious.When she sees what was on the mirror she begins running for her life, panicking. You can feel the emotions felt by the women with her use of overeaggeration, automatically when someone starts running you know that it has to be something scary and that this character is threatened. The film is set typically at night, and the women seems in20-30's and a higher class, as she looks like a hard working, by the smart but causal clothing she is wearing. Like she has just come back from work.
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