Sunday 26 January 2020

Genre Research: Bird Box

Camera angles (CAMS)

  1. Establishing shot
  2. Ariel shot
  3. High angle
  4. Close up
  5. Over the shoulder shot
  6. Three shot
  7. Two shot
  8. Wide shot
  9. Tracking shots to transition
  10. Extreme close up
    1. Contributes to the ominous mood
  11. Low angle

Mis-En-Scene (CLAMPS)

  1. Ominous lighting
  2. Colors stay on the cooler side of the spectrum contributing to the eerie feeling
  3. Editing
  4. Jump cuts occur constantly
  5. Eye line match
  6. Cross-cutting
  7. Graphic match
  8. Reaction shot
  9. Special effects: eyes change color when someone sees the monster

Elements of the genre
Sounds

  1. Ominous
  2. Quiet
  3. Light, nature inspiring yet eerie and lonely
  4. Non-diegetic sounds target audience emotion
  5. Incidental sounds common
  6. Same sound bridge for every jump cut
  7. “No sounds” creates a feeling of the “calm before the storm”
  8. Internal diegetic sounds in the form of hallucination

What elements do you like

  1. The use of sound improved the storytelling

What elements do you dislike

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