Settings can unfamiliar to

make the characters and

audience feel uneasy
The use of shadows on people’s faces and alone. There are
signify secrecy. In our film, we chose to many examples such as
have the masked man in darkness, which Cabin Fever (2002, Eli
is eerie and contrasts the normality of the Cabin
Roth) or TV programmes
Fever
protagonist in the kitchen. like Lost.

Lighting can be controlled to

create tension. The use of Places can also be
darkness can make someone familiar such as the home
feels isolated and uneasy or look (e.g. Scream, 2002
sinister, e.g. man at window. Craven) which allows for

lighting a normal equilibrium to be

mise-en-scene
disrupted by an outside
influence

genre
Costumes and props can connote different
moods, e.g. the use of red in our opening
Lincoln Rhyme sequence signifies murder and danger.
in The Bone
Collector (1999)

characters camera work

Protagonist – uncovering
Cross in Along mysteries + solving
Came a Spider problems
(2001)

Meg Altman in Different types of shots

Panic Room Antagonist – preventing create different
Thriller and horror atmospheres e.g. a WS
(2002) the protagonist from
Clarice movies tend to use tilted connotes isolation,
restoring equilibrium
Starling in shots which distort view, whereas an ECU or CU
Silence of the signifying that something indicates claustrophobic,
Lambs (1991) strange is happening. nervous atmosphere like
the shot in Dark Summer
Myers in Mills in
of the babysitter running
Halloween Taken
upstairs.
(1978) Stanfield (2008)
in Firewall
(2006)