March 16, 2012
Woman In Black
Last Friday I went and saw Woman in Black. This film has many film techniques that we have talked about in class. This movie is a horror movie and has lots of gothic elements too. The movie is about this women who haunts a town and kills children becasue when she was a son her sister took him saying that she was unfit to take care of him. One raining night the sister, the boy and the sisters husbands carriage got stuck in the swamp and started to sink and the sister and husband got out and didnt help the boy out so the boy died. Because the sister didnt save the son the Woman in black started haunting htat house they used to live in and every time someone would see her, she would take the life of another kid. The main sceen that is used a lot during this movie is a creepy mantion The has lost a mirrors an back room, and a little run down town that is always gloomy and isn't really nice. Another film tech that is used is the girl is wearing all black, this shows that there is an evilness to her. Another technique that is used that whatever kid was being killed was wearing white clothing to show their inncoents.
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Last week, I also saw the Woman in Black. This movie is about a man named Arthur who’s wife died giving birth to their son. In the movie, he goes to a town to pack up a ladies house. He doesn’t realize that the house is haunted by the woman in black. The town has a story that once you see the woman in black, she goes on a killing rampage of children. The reason the woman in black does this is because her sister took her son away from her when he was born and the son died in the care of the sister. She believes that if she couldn’t have her son, nobody else should be able to have their children. In the movie, there’s a scene with Arthur and a man named Mr. Bentley, where they thought they came up with a way to stop the woman in blacks killing. They have to dig up her sons body out of the mud. In this scene, there are a lot of different angles of camera work. There is a scene where there is a series of action match cuts from the car light, to the rope that is tied onto Arthur, to the pile of mud where the cross is, back to the car when it is backing up, back to the rope tightening, back to the bubbles in the mud where Arthur just disappeared.
ReplyDeleteI think The Woman in Black is very good for a more modern horror movie. It does use some jump scares, but it makes up for it by setting up a very creepy story and atmosphere. The lighting throughout the entire movie is very dark and dismal. Shadowing is used many times to keep an air of mystery and creepiness to the film. In one particular scene, there is a rocking chair moving violently back and forth all by itself and at one point when it swings into the camera frame, the woman in black’s face appears in it for a brief moment. One of the creepiest aspects of the movie is when it shows all the times the children have died and off to the side where there was once nothing, the viewer is made aware that the woman was actually standing there all along. Along with her entirely black garb and veil, she is usually standing in a shadowy corner, which is extremely unsettling. I agree with the color black representing a kind of evilness to the woman, because nothing appeases her and instead of just being happy to have her son, she goes on taking the lives of children instead. Another technique used is close-ups, particularly in one scene where the protagonist starts up all the wind-up toys in the little boy’s room. The camera jumps from toy to toy as the intensity builds up in the scene, showing every one of the slightly creepy toys several times. This gives the obvious notion that something is about to happen as the frequency quickens.
ReplyDeleteI also saw The Woman in Black recently and many film techniques stood out to me. Very often the camera tacked and panned along with the main character, Daniel Radcliff, and it really gave the views a feeling of being inside the action. Another re-occurring shot was a deep focus long shot down the hallway. You could see the many entrances to separate rooms; however the focus was clearly mean to be on the last room in the hallway. At all times in this film the lighting was dull, and even more often extremely dark. The lighting was symbolic by making the darkness represent the death and destruction to come later in the film. In my opinion the most signifgant scene in the film was one of the last. In this scene the main character in attempt to resolve this terrifying crisis extracted the corpse of the “woman in black’s” son to return him to his mother. After the body was returned to the bed many camera shots and flat angle tracking shots led up to the most exciting scene in the whole film. After many close up shots on the child’s former toys and knick-knacks then it the movement in the room shows that his mother is coming back for him. Finally you see the Woman in Black emerge from the shadows in the corner of the bedroom, and this is the most important show of the entire film. It shows that this mother just wanted to be reunited with her son and that the reunion is worthy of revealing her mysterious and terrifying silhouette to all the viewers filled with anticipation to see her.
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