Blog post 04
Title: The door lock
Film studio / distributor: XiaMen HengYe YouXianGongSi
Year of release: 2020/09/01
Production area: China
Director: KeBie
Screenwriter: ZhuzhuChen
The film is a remake of the Korean film of the same name in 2018, this is focusing on the safety of women living alone. Fang Hui, who works hard in a big city, lives alone and finds her home invaded by strangers
Lighting
In many horrors movie there are typically lots of the color blacks, because we understand the color signified danger, darkness, mystery. So for example in the start of the film there is a lot of the use of the color black and that is because red and black has become semantic codes for horror we understand that there have links to things like death or blood so we automatically appreciate that is a horror movie. At the beginning of the film, the light is gray and black. As the heroine passes through the dark alley, the light becomes warmer. When the heroine returned home, the light in the house was still very dark. The light also reflected that she was not particularly rich and lived in a quiet suburb. According to Barthes’s theory, when she was sleeping in bed, we could see a man's naked back blowing his hair in the bathroom, but we couldn't see who the man was. When the man walked slowly to the bedside and lowered his head, he lay next to the woman, the hermeneutic codes/enigma has been created, the impact on the audience would be let the audience guess who is this man? Why does this man appear in the bathroom right behind the bed? and how did he come in the room?
Sound
The music at the beginning of the film gives people a tense and exciting feeling, especially when the heroine opens the door and locks, we can't see the heroine open the door, but we can hear the sound of opening the door lock. In addition, she can hear the old sound of the door when she opens the door. The impact on the audience is to make the audience feel afraid and then keep up with the tense plot. If we were to see a clip or in a film of a person pulling a key out of their pocket that would be a phoretic code, which would signify to the audience that she is going to open the door
Camera
There are many birds eye scenes at the beginning of the film. These scenes show that she is very fragile and venerable, especially when she heard some strange sounds in the armoire, she began to look armoire. There was a cut when she suddenly opens the armoire to check the sound. In this action, her face shows fear and loneliness because she might think someone hide in the armoire.
Editing
The L cuts have been used in the beginning of the film which the sound appears on the screen at first and the image came out later. For example, during she opens the door, the sound of the woman put the key into to the hole came out at first, then they switched to a over shoulder shots with the woman opening the door. The impact on the audience is to let the audience know that the mood is tense and the place which she lived is dark and unsafe.
Mise en scene
There was a middle-aged greasy man with no washed hair harass and track the woman who live alone. He wears black and tracking woman during the nighttime.
The Stuart of Hall representation of stereotype the middle-aged man is greasy.
The close up shot of the feet cannot put down on the ground when she sits on the bed, which emphasizes that she is small and weak. From this picture the enigma codes which illustrate that there is a person hide under her bed and watching her. The impact on the audience would let the audience get confused by having questions who is hiding under her bed? Why does he want to hide under the bed? The audience would bring their own guess and enigma would make them feel more excited to continue to watch the film.
Title: Twelve citizens
Film studio / distributor: He Bei Zhao Xin YouXianGongSi
Year of release: 2014/02/08
Production area: China
Director: AngXu
Screenwriter: Luna Wang
The film is a remake of the American film of twelve angry man in 1957 this is focusing on crime and thriller genre.
The point of view shot in the start of the movie was fabulists, according to Barthes’s theory the hermeneutic codes/enigma has been created in this shot. The impact on the audience would be let the audience arouse the imagination of what happen and could arouse the motivation of watching desire. The enigmas in this picture are who is this man? Why does he want to kill people? This brings us to the main content of the film.
The lighting that used for this shot are dark around the center, the use of that is to show the center is important. Based on the Saul bass tittle sequence, the lighting in the center would more attract the audience to focus on the center.
In this picture, the close up of the feet include pan, tilt and ped on cane emphasized that the man is weak and old. According to Bathers theory the semantic codes been used to show the old man is poor because he lives in the old and dirty apartment which establish by the shot which coming later. We could see the use of the title sequence in the start of this film.
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