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How to shoot horror
Margaretta 2021-10-22 14:32:17
The film successfully used some techniques to achieve the effect. For example, the viewing angle is restricted. The audience generally has a sense of fear about the invisible places. When the last person is chased by a ghost, the camera follows the protagonist and pushes the door to enter, and what we can see is almost the wall because of the camera's swing angle. It's very small, leaving the bigger unknown where we can't see it. Secondly, in the final scene, the protagonist is chased by a ghost and leaned against a wall. The general experience is that the ghost will come out from behind the wall and give a fatal blow. The film is indeed arranged like this, but before that, It changed three angles to close up the protagonist's face, and then it featured the chain that he reached out to take his pocket, and when the audience's attention was almost distracted, he let the ghost come out through the wall. This delay technique is sometimes very useful. In fact, the biggest technique of the film is to let the plot give the audience an imagination. As long as people feel that the ghost is possessed and attack them at any time, a large part of a one-person scene becomes possible.
Extended Reading
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[to Ash, after picking up a ceremonial dagger adorned with skulls]
Scotty: This kinda looks like your old girlfriend! Ha ha ha.
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Cheryl: [possessed] Queen of spades... Two spades, jack of diamonds, jack of clubs.