Horror Genre Study Assessment Two
Text Analysis: The Ring Film Techniques
Brock O’Neill
Writing suspense is all about how tight you can make the rope before you break it and send your audience plunging. The Ring, directed by Gore Verbinski, uses a variety of different film techniques to promote both fear and suspense. Some of these techniques include camera positioning and angles, diegetic and non-diegetic sounds and dark lighting. Combined, these film techniques operate to create an insidious atmosphere that strikes fear into the hearts of the audience. Some of these techniques can be clearly identified in the opening scene as well as the within the ferry scene of the film.
Within the opening scene of The Ring, aspects such as camera angles, …show more content…
Throughout the entire scene Gore Verbinski takes advantage of using a darker colour palette. This helps to promote fear by creating a dark and malicious atmosphere, this effect is removing the happy-cheery atmosphere that is often associated with brighter colours. This scene begins with the perspective of the horse looking at our main character, Racheal. This gives the audience the chance to look through the horse’s eyes, to see what the horse itself sees. But it also gives us an insight towards another factor, that factor being that she is completely alone in this current scenario, and nobody can protect her from the impending doom. This delivers a sense of insecurity towards the audience as it gives a warning that something is about to happen yet not presenting anything specifically. This leaves the viewers wondering at what is about to come, and in doing so also provides suspense of frantically waiting for the inevitable. Soon after the horse liberates itself from its cage, and begins to wreak havoc among its surroundings. During this time, fast paced, non-diegetic music begins to slowly build up and present itself. This, combined with the rapidly changing camera angles keeps the audience on high alert as the specific details of what is going on in the current situation is unknown. This helps to build suspense as it is leading up for something dramatic to happen, but is still keeping the audience in the dark about what is actually going to
Text Analysis: The Ring Film Techniques
Brock O’Neill
Writing suspense is all about how tight you can make the rope before you break it and send your audience plunging. The Ring, directed by Gore Verbinski, uses a variety of different film techniques to promote both fear and suspense. Some of these techniques include camera positioning and angles, diegetic and non-diegetic sounds and dark lighting. Combined, these film techniques operate to create an insidious atmosphere that strikes fear into the hearts of the audience. Some of these techniques can be clearly identified in the opening scene as well as the within the ferry scene of the film.
Within the opening scene of The Ring, aspects such as camera angles, …show more content…
Throughout the entire scene Gore Verbinski takes advantage of using a darker colour palette. This helps to promote fear by creating a dark and malicious atmosphere, this effect is removing the happy-cheery atmosphere that is often associated with brighter colours. This scene begins with the perspective of the horse looking at our main character, Racheal. This gives the audience the chance to look through the horse’s eyes, to see what the horse itself sees. But it also gives us an insight towards another factor, that factor being that she is completely alone in this current scenario, and nobody can protect her from the impending doom. This delivers a sense of insecurity towards the audience as it gives a warning that something is about to happen yet not presenting anything specifically. This leaves the viewers wondering at what is about to come, and in doing so also provides suspense of frantically waiting for the inevitable. Soon after the horse liberates itself from its cage, and begins to wreak havoc among its surroundings. During this time, fast paced, non-diegetic music begins to slowly build up and present itself. This, combined with the rapidly changing camera angles keeps the audience on high alert as the specific details of what is going on in the current situation is unknown. This helps to build suspense as it is leading up for something dramatic to happen, but is still keeping the audience in the dark about what is actually going to