Part 3 : Camera Angles Of Horror Movies & Action Movies .
by snowfrog91
Today I will talk about camera angles of horror movies.
In horror movie, the objectives is to normally scares audiences especially comes to
supernatural horror movies.
Today I will be taking “The Conjuring” movies as my research for horror movies.
*The Conjuring is a 2013 American supernatural horror movies directed by James Wan. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson star as Ed and Lorraine Warren who were American paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of haunting. Their reports inspired the Amityville Horror. The Warrens come to the assistance of the Perron family (Ron Livingston and Lili Taylor), who are experiencing increasingly disturbing events in their farmhouse in Harrisville, Phode Island in 1971.*
Establish Shot
This is usually happens in the beginning of the movie to emphasize and to show audiences that this house is probably a haunted place in the movie. It is to build audiences tension and draw them into the set. In The Conjuring movies, this house, Perron Family house and it is haunted.
Close Up or Extreme Close Up
When it closes up, it makes the audiences feel uncomfortable and make them concentrate on the actors emotion. This shot normally can scare most of the audience when it suddenly pop out on a screen with those kind of ghost in extreme close up mode like this movie. She was sleeping and when she opens her eye, the ghost is just on top of her.
Point Of View
This creates the effect that the audience is seeing what the actor would see. POV shots are scary too, as you will not know if the actor could see ghost on their sight anot. Normally ghost will pop out from the actor POV. In this scene, Lorraine dropped into a small room where it is dark, she quickly opens up the supernatural mirror and look if there is any ghost around. POV, slowly slowly she move her mirrors around, popped out a fatty ghost holding a knife.
Panning
This is when cameras moves from left to right or right to left depending on the subject. This part is where they solves the ghost mystery and they took the supernatural mirror back and kept into a store room. Warren kept it into the store room and lock the door. From the door, the camera pans to the right slowly until to the supernatural mirrors. Mirrors start to turn around and you will expecting to see something out from the mirrors as the audiences. It’s to show suspicious thing ,when you use pan.
Hand Held
Alot of horror movies,does handheld. This produces some jerky movement that creates the sense of reality in that scenes. In this part, Lili heard something downstair, and she went to check it out if there is anything downstair, and the camera handheld on her, while she is finding if there is anything. When she went into the store room, she was scare and she plan to get out from the store room and it close up to the door, where the door closed itself and scare out of her, she felt back down to the store room. Hand-held can create nervous to the audience where you don’t know when the ghost going to appear on to the screen.
Kevin Lim Tseng Kai 
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This is a good idea to deconstruct a film in this way – be careful not to state the obvious – such as establishing shots at the beginning of the film or what a pan or close up is – this is well known – and look to use some more in depth theory to explain the psychology behind camera work – there is a danger that this is very simplistic – It’s good to have the illustrations / film stills to show your ideas.
You need to check through your use of English for correct use of tense – for example ‘she was scare’ – you have switched into present tense – It should have been – she was scared –
There are many grammatical errors – but it’s good to see that you are writing your own text.
I will email you some corrected text – so you can see the issues you have.