Micro Features

 Micro features ♡

Genre

Horror:

• sound - contrapuntal 
• lighting - minimal, dark
• mise en scene - weather, costume
• shift in editing - shift in narrative

Horror as a genre reflects modern society fears - 1930s-1950s: horrors like frankenstein as post WW1 people were scared of the unstoppable. modern society: racial fears? (get out, 2017) 

Get out, First scene: micro features/media language

Mise en scene

• dark lighting - night. connotes danger
• phone call - reflects normality 
• white car - may reflect race differences
• car lights shown change from white to red - reflects shift in narrative and red connotes danger. white connotes pureness. change from innocence to danger

editing

• one take/shot
• sound effects - music
• slow paced - tension builds

camera work

• camera moving down the street, following character - viewers are put in the characters position
• wide shot of street first, establishing shot, sets scene
• mid shot of character - connotes normality 
• one take 
• ends with another wide shot - cyclical: this is a repetitive thing that often occurs

sound

• diegetic sound: phone call, nature sounds (wind, animals, dialogue, walking)
• contrapuntal sound, upbeat music - doesn't reflect the danger that is occurring