Joe runs, film studies horror scene

For our scene we wanted to recreate a scenario that was reminiscent of chase scenes in slasher horror films. We wanted to create tension and fear in the viewer, which we eventually did by our camera techniques, non diagetic sounds and attention to location and mise em scene. To portray the coldness of these slasher films we had to think about the colour palette within the scene, bright bloc colours would have clashed with the overall theme we were going for, so we settled for using dark, Almost bland colours for the clothing. If we look at the setting of the church and graveyard, we can tell that this  is a common convention of horror films, with graves always symbolising death, terror and usually foreshadowing what'll happen in the later sections of the scene. we used a wide angled pan during the opening shot, this was used to not only create some form of establishing shot but to also to portray the severity and magnitude of the situation, which is shown in the width of the shot.following this we used a stationery shot with camera looking up, this was to show that the the person running away from the entity chasing him was in fact the protagonist of the scene.

 Directly after this shot we use a 360 handheld pan of the protagonists face. This was used to portray the fear that the protagonist was dealing with, illustrating that that the entity could be anywhere around him. By focussing on the protagonist, everything behind him is blurred and out of focus, this was used to show that everything around him ceased to be real to him, with only himself and the entity following him mattering.