Alistair Young analyzed several horror films to learn techniques for an individual film research project. Scream, You're Next, and Psycho provided ideas for integrating jump scares and building suspense. Kathryn, The Ward, and May offered ways to depict madness, paranoia, and psychological horror. Tale of Two Sisters and Apollo 18 gave insights into using multiple characters, disturbing images, and gradually increasing tension as the film progresses. The document examines techniques from various horror films that could inform Young's individual film research.

1. Individual Film
Research
by Alistair Young

2. Scream
• From watching Scream, we learnt how we can
integrate jump scares into our OTS using a variety
of shots.

3. You’re Next
• You’re Next showed us how we can use close ups
of people to show their facial expressions of
confusion and fear to connote meaning to the
audience.

4. Kathryn
• We watched a OTS on youtube which focused on the
madness + paranoia genre.What we learnt from this is
how we can let the audience know this person in our
OTS is going crazy.

5. Psycho
• From Psycho, we learnt how we can be able to build
up suspense and tension when the audience sees
something that the person in the OTS doesn’t.

6. The Ward
• What we learned from The Ward was,
again, how to integrate quick scenes of
psychological horror into normal, everyday
scenes.

7. Tale of Two Sisters
• A tale of two sisters gave us some ideas
about how to use more than one person,
and how to bring in an evil character using
different types of shots.

8. May
• May gave us a couple of ideas on how to use
disturbing images to good effect in our film.

9. Apollo 18
• From Apollo 18, we learnt how to build tension by making
everything seem normal at first but then gradually gets
worse and more frightening as the film progresses.

10. Apollo 18
• From Apollo 18, we learnt how to build tension by making
everything seem normal at first but then gradually gets
worse and more frightening as the film progresses.