2. The Shining
• We learnt from watching the shining
how to show the progress of a
man’s sanity slowly deteriorating in
a way which frightens the audience.
3. Shutter Island
• We learned from Shutter Island how we can use
different shot transitions when editing our OTS, to
switch from hallucinations to reality using fades and
flashes.
4. Jacob’s Ladder
• We learnt from Jacob’s Ladder how to create fear and
make the audience feel scared and uncomfortable
using unnatural and disturbing images which play on
people’s fears.
5. The Last House on the Left
• From The Last House on the Left, we learnt how to build up
the situation from the normal everyday life to something
which is horrific and terrifying.This film gave us some ideas on
how to use sound to build up suspense.This could be
diegetic, or non-diegetic.
6. The Strangers
• What we learnt from The Strangers
is how to shock our audience and
make them feel unsettled and
uncomfortable using sharp loud
music along with intense and
graphic scenes.
7. Stir of Echoes
• We learnt from this film how to
surprise the audience through
disturbing scenes and jump scares.
8. Poltergeist
• From Poltergeist, we learnt what type of lighting to
use in certain scenes, depending on what is
happening in the scene,
9. The Purge
• From The Purge, we learnt how we can build
up suspense as the OTS progresses, flowing
from one situation to another.
10. Scream
• From watching Scream, we learnt how we can
integrate jump scares into our OTS using a variety
of shots.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. The Ward
• What we learned from The Ward was,
again, how to integrate quick scenes of
psychological horror into normal, everyday
scenes.
15. 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.
16. May
• May gave us a couple of ideas on how to use
disturbing images to good effect in our film.
17. 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.
18. 1408
• By watching the film 1408, we learnt how and
were inspired to use flashing effects to signify
when a hallucination is happening.
19. Suicide Club
• From watching the trailer of Suicide Club, we have
learnt how to make the audience feel
uncomfortable using unnatural and disgusting
scenes.
20. Come Back to Me
• From this film, we learnt how to signify to the
audience that the character is having trouble
sleeping and be able to connote that he’s going
insane in our OTS.
21. Dorothy
• From watching this trailer for the film Dorothy, we learnt
how to create narrative enigmas about characters and how
to signify something is wrong with them without giving too
much away.
22. Asylum Blackout
• Asylum Blackout helped us figure out how
to exploit primal fears, as well as create a
dangerous atmosphere within our OTS.
23. Silence of the Lambs
• Silence of the Lambs helped us come up with ways
to create a disturbing and scary atmosphere by
playing with people’s fears.
24. Event Horizon
• The film Event Horizon showed us how to use
hallucinations, when to use them and how to
use them to full effect. It also taught us to play
on people’s fears to engage them in the OTS.
25. Memento
• Memento showed us how to keep the audience
engaged in a film by keeping them guessing as to
what’s going to happen and why it’s happening.
26. Donnie Darko
• This film inspired us to use hallucinations and visions
as the film is based around having visions which force
him to do things.
