Genre Research - Eerie

 

Genre : eerie

 

Common CAMS in the genre

• close up to characters face when talking on the phone

Dutch 

Panoramic shots to show across a room or photos or materials on a desk.

Jump cuts

Over the shoulder along with tracking when characters are talking on the phone or venturing into a mysterious place

 

Common CLAMPS in the genre

• dark/dim lighting or bright blurry lighting 

Lots of nostalgic or symbolic props

Characters clothing set in a different time period or just very simple.

 

Common Editing in your genre

 Jump cuts

Cut away

 

Common Sound in your genre

• slight ambience or lack of the forest being shown

The ambience of a lady singing, with slight wind 

Sound bridge from the lady singing to a telephone ringing to change scene from a winter forest to a bedroom.

Diegetic sounds…telephone ringing in midsommar throughout the silence

Dialogue characters on phone.

Songs or musical pieces that are melodic or can’t decipher what is being said, often in a made up or different language from intended audience.

Eerie piano and string instrument keys 

Scrapping like metal

 

Example films of your genres

• Midsommar

Coralline

Orphan first kill

 

What elements of the genre that you like An would use
if this was your genre?

• the bright blurry lighting and the eerie indecipherable music

 

What elements of the genre do not appeal to you, and
you would not use if this was your genre

The extremely dark lighting,