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The Witch: film analysis and horror concepts
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- 1Describe the Witch.Director: Robert Eggers/ Cinematographer: Jarin Blaschke
- 1.66:1 aspect ratio; more squarish, more timeless and goes back in history
- Made the house seem more claustrophic and show more height of the woods
-composed shots to make characters look small compared to trees; hints at world where people are always thinking about what's above them (Puritans) - 2Who are the 6 characters in the Witch.1. William = husband
2. Katherine - wife
3. Tomasin = oldest daugter
4. Caleb = oldest son
5. Mercy/Jonas = twins
6. Baby Sam - 3Describe how the witch was shot.- shot digitally in natural light, would've liked to shoot on film
- think Witch is overlit b/c the family would never had used so many candles
- filmed on overcast days to make it oppressive
- low ceilings = enclosurement and oppressive nature - 4Describe camera shots and movement in the Witch.- characters shot head on instead of at angle (like most films)
- movement along z-axis (less lateral) to pull toward things - 5Describe cutting in camera with the witch.- Didn't shoot conventional coverage
- conventional coverage: go into a reverse shot of for a conversation
-storyboarded movie, so they almost edited before - 6Describe the witch as a horror film .- horror film of through elicitation psychological suspense
- alternative to graphic violence
- evocation of dread (suggestion, ambiguity, portents)
- evocation of the uncanny - 7what is "the uncany"?uncanny: mysteriously strange beyond normal, arousing superstitious fear.
- essay by Freud in 1919
- "all that is terrible, all that arouses dread and creeping terror"
- leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar ("ive been here")
- anxiety from primitive beliefs are confirmed, death - 8Describe the feeling of dred.- feeling of fear, anxiety, or foreboding
- sense of impending threat/doom
- unlike the experience of fear, dread is not connected w/ a specific object
- pointing to something not clearly understood or identified
- evoking an idea that forces are at work int he world that're hidden or unexplainable - 9Describe horror since 1960.- monsters identified with the normal everyday
- emphasis upon bodily violation and breakdown (latex, prostherics, gore, shock)
- "normality destroyed at film's end"
- monsters is undefeated - 10Describe general horror.- violate boundary conditions
usre-arrange category distinctions
- upset existing cultural classification and belief systems
- horror arises from these violations
Ex: lie has meaning and purpose, benevolent god created - 11What is horror's purpose.- reveals & anxieties of what makes us human - Margaret Mead, 1949
- demonstrated the fragility of human identity - 12What is required to remain human?- present the question in it's negative form by showing the loss of human identity
- By doing so, it reinforces existing categories
- *because of this, it will never go out of fashion - 13Give the plot of Nothing But a Man.- Duff, a railroad section gang worker and meets schoolteacher, Josie, the preacher's daughter
- Duff's father abandoned him and his foster mother is indifferent
- quits section gang and marries Josie for lower pay (tries to unionize and fired)
- preacher gets him another job at white gas station (loses job)
- runs away and finds father w/ alcohol poising (they take him to hospital)
- they say everything is going to be ok - 14Describe the plot of Man With a Movie Camera.- cameraman setting up camera on top another huge camera
- woman getting out of bed (staged) - 15Describe the plot of the The Conversation.Harry, a PI, moved to San Fran
- 16Describe Coppola and Michelangelo Blowup- surveillance versus participation and perception vs. reality
- 17Describe sound in contemporary film.-
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