The genre of Sleepy Hollow is introduced with what the audience are lead to
believe as blood dripping on the floor, automatically this connotes genres of
horror and mystery. It makes the audience question what has happened outside of
the shot. Also the creepy non diegetic
music at the beginning sets the theme of horror, and creates suspense.
One of the characters is first introduced by a close up on his hand. The character is writing a letter, the writing on the letter is fancy and the paper is old, so we can tell that the film is set a few decades ago. This character seems mysterious because we only see his hand, which suggests that we shouldn’t know who he is, however we do know that he is. We see another character in the carriage in the middle of a storm which suggests that he is vulnerable and also innocent as he is by himself. We don’t get introduced to the characters properly, we don’t hear them speak or engaging with other people, which creates this whole theme of mystery.
The lighting is dark and there are a lot of shadows around which sets the mood of horror. Tim Burton has used pathetic fallacy to suggest the mood in which he is presenting. The mise en scene is very detailed, for example we can see the letter is on old paper and he is writing with ink, which shows the era and the significance of the letter. The room isn’t shown too much, therefore not giving much away. Outside its very dark and it looks like the characters are in the middle of nowhere, or so we are lead to believe as we can’t see a lot from the low lighting. It’s all very well planned as the audience don’t get to see a lot, which makes them question what going to happen in the movie. This is the narrative being set up, we can see a mystery being formed, and everyone is wondering what’s going to happen next.
There were very few inter titles, and they were presented on a black screen, so that when the first scene came on, the audience could concentrate on the movie, which means that Tim Burton wants the audience to pay close attention to the actions going on in the movie. First we had the “Mandely pictures” and then the production team, whilst Tim Burton followed afterwards. The inner titles were kept short whilst non diegetic music played over the top. The music was creepy and set the mood for the scene, it automatically made the audience feel tense and it added more emphasis to the mood. There were also diegetic sounds such as the horse gallop and the sound of lightening. These sounds are already quite creepy if put in the right place. The horse galloping was sinister and created suspense, and the lightening added to the suspense and really added to the mood of horror.
Camera shots can really affect the way a movie looks, there were many camera shots and they were all used to their advantage. There were close up of the candle wax dropping on the floor, which gave a lot of detail, but was also used so that you couldn’t see what was going on around the camera, which also lead to mystery. There was a long shot of the horse and carriage, so that we could see the environment that it was in and what kind of era the movie was set in. A mid shot was used to show the character in the carriage, this gave us an idea of the kind of person he was going to be representing.
The camera movement on the whole was smooth and stable, so that it was easy to focus on what was in the shot, and made it so that you were watching from a third persons view. When creating the beginning of a movie, I would like to use the close ups, for detail and also so it leads to mystery; and non diegetic sound so that it sets the mood for the scene.
One of the characters is first introduced by a close up on his hand. The character is writing a letter, the writing on the letter is fancy and the paper is old, so we can tell that the film is set a few decades ago. This character seems mysterious because we only see his hand, which suggests that we shouldn’t know who he is, however we do know that he is. We see another character in the carriage in the middle of a storm which suggests that he is vulnerable and also innocent as he is by himself. We don’t get introduced to the characters properly, we don’t hear them speak or engaging with other people, which creates this whole theme of mystery.
The lighting is dark and there are a lot of shadows around which sets the mood of horror. Tim Burton has used pathetic fallacy to suggest the mood in which he is presenting. The mise en scene is very detailed, for example we can see the letter is on old paper and he is writing with ink, which shows the era and the significance of the letter. The room isn’t shown too much, therefore not giving much away. Outside its very dark and it looks like the characters are in the middle of nowhere, or so we are lead to believe as we can’t see a lot from the low lighting. It’s all very well planned as the audience don’t get to see a lot, which makes them question what going to happen in the movie. This is the narrative being set up, we can see a mystery being formed, and everyone is wondering what’s going to happen next.
There were very few inter titles, and they were presented on a black screen, so that when the first scene came on, the audience could concentrate on the movie, which means that Tim Burton wants the audience to pay close attention to the actions going on in the movie. First we had the “Mandely pictures” and then the production team, whilst Tim Burton followed afterwards. The inner titles were kept short whilst non diegetic music played over the top. The music was creepy and set the mood for the scene, it automatically made the audience feel tense and it added more emphasis to the mood. There were also diegetic sounds such as the horse gallop and the sound of lightening. These sounds are already quite creepy if put in the right place. The horse galloping was sinister and created suspense, and the lightening added to the suspense and really added to the mood of horror.
Camera shots can really affect the way a movie looks, there were many camera shots and they were all used to their advantage. There were close up of the candle wax dropping on the floor, which gave a lot of detail, but was also used so that you couldn’t see what was going on around the camera, which also lead to mystery. There was a long shot of the horse and carriage, so that we could see the environment that it was in and what kind of era the movie was set in. A mid shot was used to show the character in the carriage, this gave us an idea of the kind of person he was going to be representing.
The camera movement on the whole was smooth and stable, so that it was easy to focus on what was in the shot, and made it so that you were watching from a third persons view. When creating the beginning of a movie, I would like to use the close ups, for detail and also so it leads to mystery; and non diegetic sound so that it sets the mood for the scene.
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