Micro Features

Micro Features


Get Out (2017)

Director: Jordan Peele 


Stars: Danial Kaluuya, Allison Williams


Production Companies: Blumhouse, QC, Monkeypaw


Distributed by universal


Budget: $4.5 million

Box Office: $255.4 million


Micro Features/Conventions of horror

  • Sound - Slow - contrapuntal sound
  • Makeup - mise-en-scene
  • Murder
  • Monsters
  • Weather - gloomy/stormy
  • shift in editing style = shift in narrative 


Mise-en-scene

  • Costume
  • Props
  • Lighting
  • Setting
  • Colour palette


Editing

  • Pacing
  • Length of cuts
  • Transition 
  • Eliptical editing


Sound

  • Diegetic/Non diegetic
  • Sound FX
  • Parallel
  • Contrapuntal


Camera Work

  • Camera movement
  • Camera angle
  • Field of depth
  • Framing


Get out opening sequence


Camera

  • Tracks Andre - Turns and sees what Andre sees - we see what happens as Andre does - we relate to him
  • Cant see his face as he’s attacked - low angle, can’t see attacker - mystery - enigma code
  • Hand held - shaky on what its focusing on - viewers feel like they are there because the shakiness represents fear
  • Cyclical structure - starts and ends with a wide shot, it is reassuring


Sound

  • Run Rabbit - happy melody 
  • Jump in audio of Andre talking to himself - distressed, messy mood
  • Car gets closer - music gets louder - diegetic
  • Diegetic nature sounds - crickets 
  • Violins - devils interval (clashing) - makes you feel uncomfortable - direct links to horror


Editing

  • Slow paced editing - scary - tension
  • Builds tension and horror - prolongs the horror/suspense
  • No jump cuts - means we don’t miss anything
  • If faster we wouldn’t feel what the director puts across


Mise-en-scene

  • Colour and connotations
  • Costume - Attackers mask - echoes of the KKK
  • White suburb - white fence neighbourhood
  • Car - the car is white - creates binaries - connotations around race
  • Use of setting - seems ordinary, but the dark lighting connotes something bad
  • Suburban neighbourhoods - dominated by white middle classes


Analyse how genre conventions have been used to create meaning in a media product you have studied


Write your introduction

2-3 sentences


Introduce the film - title, date of release, ahem of director

State the sequence you are analysing- i.e. opening sequence

Identify key micro features you will use

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