6/10/10- Wrong Turn

In todays lesson we watched the first 3 mintues of the film Wrong Turn and took notes on the the visual and audio techniques used.

Homework- Wrong Turn.
The audio effects we noticed in the opening were things such as the tempo of the music. The tempo and sound builds up when danger gets closer to the characters, every now and again there will be a loud drumming to show the danger is coming. The tempo will start of slower and then build up quicker as danger is approaching. We also noticed that all the music used to build up tension is orchestrial, using insturments like violins.

The sounds in the opening are louder than they would be realisticly. This will automatically make the audience jump when watching. As the music builds up what it coming then the sounds are enhanced. Like when the rope unravels down the cliff it sounds really loud to make the audience feel worried about whats going to happen next.

There are also lots of different visual effects used in the opening to Wrong Turn. The variety of camera angles and movements used show tension. At the start of the film there is a birds eye view shot of the area where the chacraters are showing that there are in the middle of know where. There is also lots of point of view shots in the opening this builds up the tension more as you can see whats going on from the characters view. The point of view shot is used when the girl sees her boyfriend fall down to the ground and when she is also being chased by what killed her boyfriend. This will worry the audience as they ccan see it through the character eyes.

The point of view shot also gets used when the characters are climbing the cliff shwoing how high up they are and how dangerous it can be. Other shots used are low angle shots and high angle shots when they boy gets to the top of the cliff showing power as he made it to the top first. To also build up tension they change from shot to shot quicker to show what is going on at different points.